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TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.

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N6N8 TIL a local NYC News Station’s investigation revealed that over 1,500 families with 6-figure incomes lived in subsidized New York City Housing Authority apartments, including one household that pulled in nearly $500K/year plus income from property holdings
Blor TIL of ‘Courage’, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle mascot of the Second Australian Calvary Regiment. After refusing to cooperate on a training exercise, Courage flew away for two days. Once located, he was found to have been AWOL, and was formally demoted from the rank of Corporal back to Trooper.
NLjN TIL in the US, White husband/Black wife marriages are 44% LESS likely to end in divorce while Black husband/White wife is 50% MORE likely to end in divorce.
D1y1V TIL from 1917 to 1918 British Intelligence paid an Italian journalist the modern equivalent of £6,000 (US$ 8,290) per week to keep up the pro-war campaigning. The cash got him a start in politics, and was also allegedly lavished on his many mistresses. The journalist was 34-year-old Benito Mussolini
KOD0w TIL The first settler to successfully grow commercial Tobacco was John Rolfe in Jamestown, in Virginia in 1609. In 1614, the first shipment was sent to England. In 1638, 3,000,000 pounds was being sent annually. By the 1680s, Jamestown was producing over 25,000,000 pounds for export to Europe.