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Today I learned that there was Duke of Wellington, as well as a Duke Ellington. lol.

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ADwQ7 TIL "Maundy" as in Maundy Thursday comes from Latin mandatum (Eng. commandment) and symbolizes the new commandment given during the Last Supper.
0dpdj TIL the song Leave Me Alone by Michael Jackson was a response to the media after a series of negative rumors about the singer, such as MJ sleeping in an oxygen chamber to slow his aging and buying the bones of the "Elephant Man". He was often referred to as "wacko jacko", a term he did not like.
j6XXa TIL about the Morning Glory cloud, a rare meteorological phenomenon. It is a cloud that can be up to 1000 km (620 mi) long and 1-2 km (0.62-1.24 mi) high. The Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia is the only known location where it can be predicted and observed regularly
b97VQ TIL that during the Second World War, British double agent Eddie "Zigzag" Chapman and his MI5 colleagues faked a sabotage on an airplane factory. The 'damage' caused was so realistic that the German fell for it, and Chapman was awarded the Iron Cross for his action.
8aMAZ TIL during WWI all Army recruits underwent intelligence testing, the largest mass testing that had ever been attempted before. By the end of the war, close to 2 million soldiers had been tested. As a result of the tests roughly half of the recruits were classified at or below the level of "moron"