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TIL that there are many hybrid eating utensils. In addition to the spork, which combines a spoon with a fork, there are the chork (chopsticks + fork), the spife (spoon + knife), and the knork (knife + fork).

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o78K TIL that when Nirvana was asked to play Top of the Pops, they were told they can’t play instruments. Angry at this, Kurt sang in a deep voice and missed frets intentionally, Krist just spun his bass over his head continuesly, and Dave danced behind his drumkit.
0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.
e0oGn TIL that during WWII Merchant Seafarers had a proportionately higher death rate than any of the armed forces
Bdad TIL that in 1000, Spain had over 5,000,000 Muslims. By 1614, every Muslim was either forced to convert, leave, or be killed by Catholic monarchs.
nWrld TIL an apocryphal story states that the Roman Emperor Honorius was shocked upon the news of the 410 AD Sack of Rome. However, the emperor thought the news regarded one of his favorite pet chickens named Roma, and upon learning it was the city of Rome, the emperor breathed a heavy sigh of relief.