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TIL The word 'mortgage' literally means 'death pledge'

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4koxw Today I learned that the Ancient Greco-Roman practise of placing coins in the eyes or mouth of the deceased as payment for Charon was still practised in Cambodia recently under a different religious belief.
R7r0Q TIL Gene Wilder agreed to play Willy Wonka on the condition that when he made his first appearance, he’d be allowed to limp, trip over his cane and bounce back up to great applause. When asked why, he said, “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”
nWmj7 TIL that Eiji Aonuma, deputy general manager at Nintendo and former project manager for The Legend of Zelda games, is in a brass band called The Wind Wakers
xV1pb TIL that in medieval England, the Lord’s Prayer was often used as a measurement of time in medical and culinary books.
PJQE TIL ‘Eat out’ meant 'perform cunnilingus on’ 3 years before it was used to refer to 'dining away from home’