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TIL that "Dinner" (the big meal) used to be around midday so artificial light wasn't needed, and then "Supper" was an evening snack. Dinner moved later in the day during the 18th century, until it was so late a new meal was needed to bridge the gap: "Lunch."

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R47 TIL that Woody Allen’s son Ronan Farrow, a former child prodigy that now works as a Special Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is disgusted by his dad marrying his sister. On Fathers Day 2012, he tweeted “Happy father’s day— or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law’s day”
ZpExa TIL Titanic passenger Edgar Samuel Andrew was so angry he had to board Titanic, he wrote in a letter on April 8, 1912: "... right now I wish the 'Titanic' were lying at the bottom of the ocean." Week later, his wish came true.
rRLrW TIL of a man who legally changed his name to "Winter" in 2006, has played over 7,000 tournament games of Scrabbles, and has visited over 15,000 Starbucks locations, with the dream of visiting every Starbucks in the world.
5JrB TIL There is a BnB called The Smuggler’s Inn directly on the US-Canadian border. The main attraction is watching smugglers cross the border with night vision binoculars.
WmwB TIL of Unit 731, a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation. A few of the experiments included vivisection without anesthesia and pressure chambers to see how much a human could take before his eyes popped out.