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TIL a friar is a monk without a monastery

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696Lm TIL the Binary Millennium is only 14 years away - , January 19th 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC, apparently.
XEJZR TIL that fudge was popularized by rebellious women in the early days of women being able to attend college. They had strict curfews so they would rebel by holding late night snack parties in their dorms and secretly cooking fudge over gas lamps. It became a cliche that women's education = fudge.
NVle TIL A Chinese farmer developed a way to make pears grow from the tree in the shape of little baby Buddhas.
gMop7 TIL there is a county in Wisconsin called Iowa. Within that county is a town called Wyoming. The full name of the town would be Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin.
78WGp TIL that reincarnation used to be a core concept in Judaism, and still is in some practices