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TIL That French toast originated in Rome. It was when the French brought the dish to America that it was called French toast by Americans. The French actually called it Roman bread for centuries.

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woOvP TIL about the Indiana Pi Bill, a proposed law in 1897 that would have made pi equal to 3.2. Passed unanimously in the Indiana House, it was stopped by a Purdue University mathematician.
DQ5pJ TIL Potatoes 'permanently reduced conflict' in Europe for about 200 years
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OGelR TIL of Edward Barton-Wright, one of the first European practitioners of Japanese martial arts. He worked as an Antimony smelter in Japan, where he learned 2 styles of jujitsu. Upon returning to England he opened a school that taught a style named Bartitsu which combined jujitsu, boxing and savate.
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