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TIL Gonads are an actual medical term

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9w8BD TIL Trick-or-Treating originated in Canada
j6jLM TIL that the low cost wine brand "Two Buck Chuck" was created by Fred Franzia, who bought the Charles Shaw name from a bankrupt winery for $27k. Once when asked why his wine was cheaper than water, he replied "They're overcharging for the water. Don't you get it?"
ney6d TIL that Napoleon's first language was not French. He grew up speaking Corsican and Italian and did not learn French until age 10. Throughout his life he spoke French with a heavy Corsican/Italian accent and never mastered French spelling.
nZko TIL that Alex Smith took so many AP tests in high school that he entered university as a junior. The quarterback received his bachelor’s degree in two years, and began working on a master’s degree, before becoming the first overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft.
j61pE TIL spaces between words in documents first appeared in Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles in the seventh century. Paleographers today identify the extinction of 'scriptio continua' as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era.