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TIL Christmas is often spelled Xmas because the Greek letter Chi (χ) is used to abbreviate the name Christ.

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VMmV0 TIL “Mushroom management” is where employees aren’t told about the ideas or general state of the company, and are given work without knowing its purpose. So called because they are “kept in the dark and fed bullshit”
xXBD TIL that in 1973, after The Who’s drummer Keith Moon passed out on stage, Pete Townshend asked the crowd, ‘Can anybody play the drums…I mean somebody good!’ A fan, Scot Halpin, volunteered to play and proceeded to finish the set.
xVYO5 TIL that the CT scanner was invented by an electrical engineer working for EMI, the record company that signed the Beatles. His name was Godfrey Hounsfield and he performed the first CT in history by scanning his own brain.
m7jx TIL In a Blind Taste Test of San Francisco Sourdough Bread, the winner was actually from Los Angeles. They were so confused by the results, they re-did the blind test, only for the breads to rated in the exact same order.
GA1r7 TIL of the Vipeholm Experiments in Sweden. In the 1950s, intellectually disabled people were fed sweets to see whether sugar caused cavities. While unethical, this study greatly contributed to what we know about dental health.