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TIL the"French Butter Dish" keeps room-temp butter fresh using an upside-down cup placed in a dish with water, forming a seal against air.

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yQ1ra TIL Of Nicholas Winton who was known for organizing the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before war broke out in 1939.
E1MYW TIL the actor who played Crabbe in the Harry Potter series was arrested for looting a drug store with a Molotov cocktail during the 2011 London riots and spent 2 years in prison
9Ymo6 TIL that for a 16 years (from 1644-1660), eating mince pie was banned in England as it was a “frivolous activity.” This resulted in mince pie making and eating becoming an underground activity.
LkVAQ TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.
YY7Z TIL of a 12 year old boy, Hunter Scott, who in the course of doing a history project for school, found enough evidence to lead to a Congressional investigation that ended up exonerating a US Navy ship’s captain for wrongdoing, 55 years after his court martial.