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TIL there's a school students call "the Christian Hogwarts"

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gMod7 TIL of Léo Major. A Canadian soldier who single handedly captured 93 German soldiers and liberated the city of Zwolle, broke his back, went AWOA from hospital, rejoined his troops and then captured another 100 Germans and re-iberated the city of Zwolle again, by himself.
0dxyM TIL that there were different "fonts" used in the days of handwritten documents and the one you used indicated your social status or even gender
7r7or TIL: The 2019 show "Swamp Thing" was cancelled not long after it's 1st episode aired due to WarnerMedia not getting a tax credit from where it was filmed. Due to a paperwork error, North Carolina couldn't deliver a $40 million tax rebate which would have paid for half the production of season one.
yQJoX TIL that the probability of having a doppelganger (non-biologically related look-alike or double of a living person) is only one in a trillion, or almost zero. This makes it highly unlikely for any person to actually have a doppelganger, according to this University of Adelaide research.
vDRL TIL there is a language called Boontling spoken only in the small Northern California town of Boonville. It is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, Pomo Indian and Spanish.