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TIL Jelly Babies we’re originally marketed as ‘Unclaimed Babies’

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4X5da TIL Winston Churchill loved drinking. A visitor noted: "There is always some alcohol in his blood, and it reaches its peak late in the evening after he has had two or three scotches, several glasses of champagne, at least two brandies, and a highball..." Churchill passed away at the age of 90.
dDkjd TIL that the Romani people originated in the region of present-day Rajasthan, India. Their patron saint Saint Sarah is AKA Sara-la-Kali, "Kali" being a reference to the Hindu goddess Kali who is a popular goddess in northern India.
kJJgd TIL The iconic Pulp Fiction adrenaline scene was filmed in reverse.
wLKZJ TIL German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine once wrote in a play from 1821, "Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." Over a century later, copies of Heine's books were among the many burned in Berlin's Opernplatz.
VMNxQ TIL there is a field of study called zoomusicaology, that studies how animals produce and respond to music.