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TIL that total milk intake dropped by nearly half when chocolate milk removed from school program

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lwdG TIL: Jim Jarmusch was dismayed to discover all the money he paid for the rights to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” went to the record company, with nothing going to Hawkins himself. When the film (Stranger Than Paradise) earned a profit, he tracked down Hawkins to give him some money
78OpM TIL that the origin of the term ‘BullShit’ dates back to the 17th century. “Bull", meaning nonsense, while the term "bullshit" has been used as early as 1915 in British and American slang and came into popular use during WWII. "bull" from the Old French bole, meaning "fraud, deceit".
oB7ME TIL Romans may have invented the burger, called Isicia Omentata, over 1,500 years ago which was made with minced meat, pepper, wine, pine nuts and a rich fish-based sauce called garum. The Romans also introduced the first fast food restaurants, called a thermopolium, that sold hot ready-to-eat food.
yVyrJ TIL: Josephine Stephenson, the soprano in Tenebrae's "Miserere mei, Deus" YouTube video, wasn’t scheduled to be there
LaLP TIL: Italians called it the French disease, the French called it the Italian disease, today we call it syphilis–and Columbus brought it to Europe from the New World.