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TIL about Boston Brahmins - upper class English colonists who saw themselves as the social equivalent of Brahmins in the Indian caste system

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R5KA9 TIL St. Valentine is a patron saint of epilepsy. As one who suffers from this, I can also celebrate the love I have who has seen me through all of this.
GYd6N TIL at the beginning of Rob Zombie's song Dragula, the line "Superstition, fear and jealousy" was a clip spoken by Christopher Lee in the film, The City of the Dead.
VBLk0 TIL comedian Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan originally chose as his epitaph "I told you I was ill" (Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite)
ANZAl TIL about the "Sator Square". It contains a 5-word Latin palindrome, any which way you go. Or, it would, except the word “AREPO”, which appears nowhere else in Latin literature. Unlike the other words, it's definition is arguably lost to history.
oBxeR TIL: In 1990, A British Airways pilot was sucked out of a cockpit window while at cruising altitude.