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TIL We call athletic uniforms “Jerseys” because that’s where the wool for the clothing came from (however now, jerseys are more commonly made from nylon).

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JMym TIL the Great Mosque of Paris sheltered Jews during the Holocaust and supplied them with Muslim identity certificates
7rbWp TIL John Rockefeller got out of Civil War duty by paying for a substitute.
P14jg TIL there is a microbe, Mixotricha paradoxa ("paradoxical being with mixed-up hairs"), that has both cilia and flagella which protists are supposed to only have one of
RDw6 TIL German shepherds where renamed to “Alsatian Wolf Dog” after World War I due to the anti-German sentiment of the era.