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TIL many words in the Greek language have no clear origin (including ‘labyrinth’ and 'tyranny’), and are thought to have come from an unrecorded 'Pre-Greek’ language spoken before the early Greeks arrived in the area

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v1nA7 TIL that in 1829 the British Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, took part in a pistol duel with an Earl who had vehemently disagreed with his plan for Catholic Emancipation. Neither man managed to shoot the other, and the Earl later wrote him an apology
WkGPd TIL that chicken tenders are the tenderloin of the chicken.
KYEoR TIL Just 7% of Soy products are directly used for human consumption
6Ewpl TIL that ripe oranges aren’t originally orange. Instead, they’re dyed or gassed to get the bright orange color we’re all accustomed to.
61NW TIL of Liviu Librescu, a Romanian-born internationally renowned professor of aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech. He survived the holocaust. At age 76 he held the door of his classroom shut while the gunman attempted to enter it. Although shot 5 times, only 1 of his 23 students died that day.