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TIL Ovaltine is technically a form of gruel, but the manufacturers avoid calling it such due to negative historial connotations

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OG5a7 TIL Sir Nicholas Winton, widely renowned for saving Jewish children in Czechoslovakia in 1939, was never bestowed upon the honorific "Righteous Among the Nations", for it is exclusively awarded to people of non-Jewish descent.
neX0b TIL of the Judean Date Palm. An extinct palm variety that was revived using 2,000 year old seeds.
mxM5R TIL the origin of the Stonehenge stones was only discovered after a lost core was returned after 62 years.
x68Zg TIL that the letter “E” was used for grading up until the 1930s because US schools feared students would misinterpret “E” for meaning excellent.
p8rAO TIL of the "Jefferson Bible." Thomas Jefferson cut-and-pasted together his own version of the philosophical and moral teachings and doctrines of Jesus, "notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural," including his resurrection.