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VMnEQ TIL about the meanings of the famous quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries”. The hamster likened a mother to a fast breading rodent and elderberry was a common kind of wine, implying the father was a drunk.
wLvR8 TIL "area codes" for telephone numbers were originally called "STD codes"
Z9QB TIL that Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”
R7rv8 TIL that some physical expressions are hardwired into our genes. A study have observed that blind athletes (and blind kids) use the victory gesture (raising hands) after wining even though they have never seen anyone else do it.
B68D TIL a West African prince was enslaved in 1788, brought to the U.S., and freed 40 yrs later as per the request of the Sultan of Morocco