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TIL the "S." in US Civil War General and President Ulysses S. Grant doesn't stand for anything and was a result of a filing error on his application to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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X07kj TIL the Black Death contributed greatly to the rise of the British Pub and pub culture. Thanks to the plague, scarcity of labor greatly improved the standard of living for peasants, who in turn spent their extra money on beer.
lKrr TIL that “a nickname” was originally “an ekename”, literally meaning “additional name”. Over the years, the word was misdivided into “a nickname”.
J170B TIL the Domesday Book, the oldest public legal record in England, from a survey in 1086. Shires were visited by royal officers, who held a public inquiry in the shire court. The unit of inquiry was the Hundred (a Hundred was comprised of ten Tithes of ten households). (Wapentakes in east England).
OoL9L TIL that a longstanding custom in Denmark for people who are still unmarried by their 25th birthday is to have their friends and family tie them to a lamppost and douse them in cinnamon. If in 5 years they're still unmarried, this gets upgraded to pepper.
alL0 TIL that the Baby Boomers were nicknamed the “Me Generation” due to their perceived narcissism.