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TIL coats of arms do not belong to a “family” but instead belong to an individual. Coats of arms within a family may be very similar but need to be “differenced” from one person to the next.

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YwYB TIL: Buried within its new Verizon Up" rewards terms of service agreement is a separate agreement for their select program that allows them to share your private data with the Huffington Post and AOL among other of their subsidiaries
GYdl5 TIL that fruit punch was invented as an alternative to beer by men working for the British East India Company. This is because the beer on their ships went bad when they reached the Indian Ocean. They ended up using rum, fruit, and spices available in their new location to create punch.
6EPBm TIL George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass is the best selling solo Beatles album. It has sold more than John Lennon’s Imagine and McCartney and Wings' Band on the Run combined.
XEYlE TIL that they used shaved bears dressed in female clothing and wearing a wig to recreate the myth of a pigfaced women at carnavals
ADMA4 TIL Childhood Amnesia is the inability of adults to recall memories before the age of two to four years.