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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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7rrkb TIL in Sweden parents planning to name a baby must get the approval of the government, submitting the proposed name of a child within three months of birth
QJDxk TIL of Lewis Fry Richardson. He derived many of the complex equations needed for weather prediction in the 1920's. However, the math was so difficult that to predict the weather six hours in advance, it took him six weeks to do the calculations.
avoZ TIL that a group of Russian lawyers threatened to sue Warner Bros over the apparent similarities between Vladimir Putin and Dobby the elf.
KWBG TIL president JFK refused to let Sammy Davis Jr perform at the white house because he was black and married a white woman
awwEN TIL in 1954, the Peanuts character "Pig-Pen" made his debut in a strip directly parodying Piggy from Lord of the Flies. He declares, "I haven't got a name ... people just call me things ... real insulting things".