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TIL that The Sound of Music is a true story

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pmL4 TIL it’s actually “Whet your appetite”, not ‘wet’. Whet means to sharpen, as as a whetstone sharpens a knife.
Oonbg TIL the Netherlands and the british Isles of Scilly were technically at war with each other for 335 years with neither side realizing it. When peace was signed in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing to the Scillonians "to know we could have attacked at any moment."
vPe9j TIL that in the USA only 19 states, plus Washington, D.C., make Kindergarten mandatory
X0jKE TIL of the Greek scholar Didymus of Alexandria, nicknamed "Bronze-Guts" for his massive output or writing, with claims he wrote over 3,500 treatises. Almost nothing of it survives.
yQG9w TIL UC Merced’s student population includes more than 73 percent who are the first in their family to attend college — double the national average and by far the highest of any UC campus. Nearly 55 percent of UC Merced’s students are Hispanic, and nine in 10 students receive financial aid