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TIL That Jokes About Violas Have Been Around For A Couple Hundred Years

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Oo00L TIL that the Python programming language wasn't named after the snake. It was named after Monty Python, because the creator was reading Monty Python scripts when he implemented the language.
XENEr TIL the blue liquid at the bottom of a porta potty was originally made with formaldehyde in order to deal with the smell. Nowadays more and more manufacturers are using enzymes and microbes that feed on odor-causing bacteria.
D48g TIL Woodie Guthrie said of This Land is Your Land “This song is Copyrighted in U.S… and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do”
M7DVA TIL Schlachtkapelle (lit. "battle chapel") is a term used in Switzerland for a chapel dedicated to the memory of one of the battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy.
0dyJL TIL that because of his lower body paralysis, Franklin D. Roosevelt developed such an impressive upper body physique that it impressed boxer Jack Dempsey. FDR once caught a 237 lb (108 kg) shark after fighting it on his line for two hours.