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TIL that apple pie isn't really an American dish!

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VBM44 TIL that the reason the middle finger is offensive is it was used as an explicit reference to the male genitalia. Greek playwright Aristophanes puns in his comedy The Clouds about dactylic (finger) rhythm, with a character gesturing first with his middle finger and subsequently with his crotch.
6EQ6W TIL that Britain incurred so much debt fighting World War II that it didn't make its final loan payment until 2006.
JYG4j TIL That the 1960's Civil Rights Leaders Intensely Trained With Role Playing and Drills Because "Non-Violence is not a normal human reaction"
e0enE TIL in 1339, French soldiers mistook hare making noises as an English attack. William II, Count of Hainaut quickly knighted 14 squires for battle. However the English attack never came and, after the reason for that became clear, those knights became known as the Knights of the Hare
YpPA7 TIL When Emilia Clarke met her game of thrones on-screen husband Jason Momoa for the first time, he yelled "WIFEY!", ran across the hall, and rugby-tackled her to the floor.