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TIL spoonerisms are named after an actual person; The reverand Spooner. And that a spoonerism is quite often comical.

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jNpWv TIL of Ervil LeBaron. He was the leader of a polygamous Mormon sect who ordered the killings of other sect leaders and members of his own family under "blood atonement." Some of his wives participated in the murders, there were at least 25 victims.
epwaL TIL There are fossilised plants in Greenland under 1.4 km of ice.
OoQ6R TIL Electrum is the alloy of silver and gold, and humanity's first metal coins were made out of it.
ZppAB TIL Patton's solution to Hawaiian lava flows in the 40s-50s was to bomb them
W76m4 TIL South America is the only inhabited continent in the world without monarchies. All South American countries are presidential republics except Suriname (a parliamentary republic) and French Guiana (a French overseas department).