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TIL that in middle ages suicidal people feared eternal damnation that direct suicide entailed, so they would commit a capital crime over innocent child and then turn themselves in to authorities and demand capital punishment

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e0jGb TIL: The “Panera Bread” name does not exist in St. Louis. There it is still called by its original name - the St. Louis Bread Co.
R5NWa TIL that Z is the most common consonant in Polish.
AXPl TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright
o1xW TIL in 2004 during the Harvard/Yale Annual American football match, Yale students tricked Harvard supporters to hold up placards, that when raised spelt out “WE SUCK”
GYwV1 TIL In 1907 Standard Oil developed the the Mei Foo kerosene lamp, which translates in Chinese to “beautiful confidence.” In its first year, more than 850,000 lamps were sold in China at around 7.5 cents each, and could stay lit for more than 240 hours on a single gallon of kerosene.