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TIL Piggly Wiggly was the world’s first supermarket

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0xKp TIL that one of Franz Ferdinand’s descendants is trying to reacquire his estate. This estate was seized by Czechoslovakia after the end of World War I, but this descendant argues that this seizure was unjust since Franz Ferdinand’s children weren’t members of the Habsburg royal family.
ebk4 TIL “bald-faced lie” and “bold-faced lie” are both correct; the original phrase is “barefaced lie,” but ‘bare’ meant brave or bold at the time.
yQNmv TIL of the Nemi Ships, two Roman ships (one a floating palace) dating back to the Roman emperor Caligula found submerged in Lake Nemi, Italy. Mussolini had the lake drained to recover them. Only 12 years later, both were destroyed in a fire during World War II.
YpAP TIL Cleveland Indians player Jason Grimsley, crawled through the stadium’s ventilation system to get to the umpires’ office to retrieve a doctored bat. He replaced the illicit bat with an undoctored one. unaware of the fact that said teammate’s name was engraved on the bat.
WkE1Y TIL about Golden Rice, genetically modified rice that has an increased nutritional value in an attempt to fight malnutrition in poverty stricken places.