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TIL that breakfast is called breakfast because you break the fast you've been observing since you went to sleep the night before.

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pjaO TIL Bob Ross received hundreds of pieces of fan mail each week, and if someone who wrote to him often stopped writing, he would personally call them to see if they were ok.
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rbPx TIL that for the first 22 years of its history Georgia banned all lawyers from the colony. Founder James Oglethorpe denounced them as a ‘pest and scourge of mankind.’
6KxW TIL early printing presses used the letter “y” for the Middle English letter thorn (þ). “Ye” (definitive article), as in “ye olde”(pronounced “the old”), became commonplace, which contributed to the transition of “ye”(noun) to “thou” to avoid confusion, which eventually lead to “thou” to “you”.