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TIL ‘Goodbye’ is a contraction of the phrase 'God be with you’, originating in 1580.

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gDJA TIL the Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. The institution is teaching since 1096.
p8DdA TIL in 2002 the Irish folk anthem A Nation Once Again won BBC World Service's poll for the world's most popular song following an e-mail campaign urging Irish expats to vote for it.
vRn4 TIL in 1386 a pig was dressed in people-clothes and then publicly executed by hanging for the murder of a child. The punishment was decided through an actual trial.
d87x7 TIL The first gun in Canadian history was a matchlock musket introduced by Sir Humphrey Gilbert when he arrived in Newfoundland in 1583. The first guns made in Canada date back to the 1830s when William Gurd of York built guns that had locks converted from flintlocks
8aEGa TIL that “Smarties” (U.S.) were first made after WWI using repurposed gunpowder pellet machines, which gave them their shape and texture.