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TIL that Eye of Newt was just another name for mustard seed.

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NgB1 TIL that baking (that’s right, oven-baking) your MacBook’s motherboard is a valid option for restoring system failure. Verified this last night. Works like new!
1ajDr TIL that the 1,500 Irish Defence Forces members that played the army in Braveheart were promised weekends off, but the shooting often ran over. One weekend, Colonel McCorley ordered the men march off set. "Mel Gibson’s mouth dropped. He couldn’t say anything."
Ok71 TIL: The elementary school game, “Heads Up, Seven Up,” was a tool used by educators to determine students that were more likely to cheat. If you weren’t very good chances are you were more honest.
9VAQ TIL the Monty Python foot was painted by Italian artist Bronzino in around 1545
KOJrE TIL that most symbols we use in mathematics can be neatly categorized into the following categories: constants, variables, delimiters, operators, relational symbols and notational symbols