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TIL garlic is a vegetable

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pl0Z TIL of Rabban Bar Sauma, a Christian monk from China who travelled from Beijing to Western France at the same time as Marco Polo travelled the opposite way
ne1Lb TIL Good King Wenceslas is technically a Boxing Day (26 Dec) carol, not a Christmas carol.
deej TIL that on this date (June 12) in 1942 Anne Frank received an autograph book from her father for her 13th birthday. That book became her diary.
5PgQ TIL that it was common for some Romans to take up a “beautiful-looking” prepubescent boy as a sex-slave to serve both the master and mistress of a household, castrating him so the boy retains his prepubescent qualities.
GYPaG TIL George Orwell took his pseudonym name from the River Orwell in Suffolk in UK