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TIL that the earliest known reference to French toast dates back to first century CE in a Latin collection of recipes.

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xVRLg TIL When she married Charles II of England in 1662, Portugal’s Catherine of Braganza brought tea with her and drank it every day out of habit. Until she arrived, people only drank tea as a heath tonic instead of a social activity.
O58a TIL Winston Churchill covered up the “Katyn Massacre” of 20,000 poles by the soviets to pursue the alliance, assuring them that “We shall certainly oppose vigorously any ‘investigation’ by the International Red Cross… Such investigation would be a fraud and its conclusions reached by terrorism”.
P0oJ TIL that pharmaceutical companies spend more on advertising than they do on actual drug research.
rNMdo TIL that the 'do' in do-re-mi was originally called 'ut' until the music theorist Giovanni Doni renamed it, ostensibly as an abbreviation of Dominus but some academics suspect that he named it after himself
P1pKe TIL that the cover art of John Lennon's Rock 'n' Roll album also features Paul, George, and Stu Sutcliffe as the blurry figures walking by. The photo was taken during their Hamburg days.