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TIL that the word cereal comes from the Roman goddess Ceres who was the goddess of the growth of food crops, including grains and cultivated fruits and vegetables.

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QJLQM TIL South Koreans are on average 3 inches taller and live 12 year longer than North Koreans
yQrgv TIL that in 1999 Homer Simpson was voted in a BBC News Online Poll as the 5th Greatest Star of Stage or Screen of the last 1000 years, beating Robert De Niro (6th) and Marylin Monroe (9th).
neeEB TIL that Time Life broadcasting sued Indiana in 1968 to force the state to observe Daylight Saving Time
6ExYZ TIL that until 2013, people interested in BDSM were regarded to have a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association. In family court, this would justify separating a child from their parent.
6E7AZ TIL about the Demon Core, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium. It was named as such after it claimed the lives of two scientists at Los Alamos Labratory in 1945/1946