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TIL that Saint Valentine is not only the patron saint of love, but also of beekeeping. This puts a different perspective of the common Valentine's Day phrase "Bee Mine".

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d1wj TIL a 216-year old business in Dalton Massachusetts called Crane & Co. produces almost all of the paper used for US currency, as well as banknotes for many foreign countries
x6LRb TIL Billie Eilish's real name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell
1aJEV TIL of Ablaut Reduplication - a subtle rule of linguistics which dictates why "King Kong" sounds more right than "Kong King", "Hip hop" sounds more correct than "Hop hip". Similarly "tick tock", "zig zag", "chit chat" etc.
wDNo TIL that there exists a convenience stall (FamilyMart) in the joint Kaesong Industrial Park in North Korea that only South Korean workers can enter but is prohibited to the North koreans
69Ebm TIL mutilation practices (e.g. cutting of hands etc.) did not just occur in the Congo Free State under Leopold II but also in British Sierra Leone, German Kamerun and French Equatorial Africa