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TIL that January is the first month of the Gregorian calendar because it is named after the roman god of all beginnings, Janus.

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VMvMD TIL that during the Lewis & Clark expedition Sacagawea was reunited with her brother Cameahwait, the "Great Chief" of the Lemhi Shoshones. This led to generous aid including selling horses, carrying cargo, sharing knowledge of the Bitterroot Mountains and the Columbia River, and supplying a guide.
8nmL TIL: January is named after Janus, the Roman God of two faces, one that looks back to the past and the other that looks forward to the future
QJP1a TIL that despite infamously campaigning on "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," Alabama governor George Wallace later renounced segregationism, publicly apologized to the black community, and appointed record numbers of African Americans to state positions and his cabinet.
x67D0 TIL 38yo Jerry Seinfeld met a 17yo high school student in a park & groomed her into a reromantic relationship that was public knowledge.
E1lBP TIL of the trial and judgement of Nazi camp commandant Josef Oberhauser. Sentenced by West German courts for 450,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Bełżec camp, he was punished with 4,5 years imprisonment, or, a bit more than 5 minutes per victim.