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TIL that the colony of Georgia was founded with four prohibitions: no Catholics, no liquor, no lawyers, no slaves.

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a8MlZ TIL Kassandra in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated and cursed by god Apollo to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. Her name is used as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed by anyone.
VBEjm Today I learned that filberts (which I grew up enjoying) and hazelnuts (which I thought I'd never tried) are the same thing (and in the UK, they're called cobnuts).
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