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TIL most of the "Grimm’s Fairy Tales" are actually French, and King Arthur isn’t even British—he’s basically a French fanfic.

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8eLBb TIL about "General Average," a 19th century maritime law requiring all stakeholders (cargo owners, shippers, etc.) to share losses if part of a ship or cargo is sacrificed in an emergency to save the whole.
OG7k4 TIL of the Koryo burger, a well known item on the inflight catering of Air Koryo, a north Korean airline. The "mystery meat" burger is served with cheese, cabbage and a brown sauce, cold to passengers. Vegetarians are offered the burger bun with extra tomato slices.
69NLX TIL Nirvana's song "Scentless Apprentice" is about Kurt Cobain's favorite novel, "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.
1aLmO TIL of Amy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's daughter. Once, when asked whether she had a message for the children of America, she replied, "no." She later became an activist, protesting foreign policy towards South African apartheid, and CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
8avXP TIL that the first emperor of China's tomb (Of Terracota Army Fame) has not yet been explored. Ancient historians wrote that tombs contains rivers of mercury mechanically operated to flow like real rivers; modern tests have reported mercury levels in the soil over 100 times what occurs naturally