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TIL Eminem got his name from his initials… Marshall Mathers (M&M)

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OoZlX TIL In addition to "pig latin" there is an actual phrase called "dog latin", which is effectively the creation of fake phrases made to sound like Latin, the most common example of which is probably "Biggus Dickus."
P1b5L TIL: the pallbearers at President Grant’s funeral were: Confederate generals Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, Admiral David Dixon Porter, Senator John A. Logan and his close friends: Sheridan and Sherman
woPEP TIL Greeks put up protective magic hermai - stone block bearded male heads with genitals "at the appropriate height" - marked crossings, boundaries, outside houses and at public buildings, and were also signposts with distances. Outside Athenian homes hermai were rubbed with olive oil for good luck.
GjJ4 TIL There is a long-term care facility in the Netherlands that allows college students to stay for free in exchange for 30 hours of volunteer per month. When students come home from a class, concert, or party, they share those experiences with their elderly neighbors, some of whom are over 90
5YyyP TIL Toronto has around 90 fake houses (they look real on the outside) which contain transformers that convert raw, high voltage electricity to a voltage low enough to distribute throughout the city.