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TIL Canada has their own Mississippi River unrelated and unconnected to the American Mississippi River.

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e0pGD TIL one of the earliest and most famous Muslims to travel through New Orleans and the New World was Prince Abdul-Rahman Ibrahim ibn Sori. The Prince read the Bible and admired its teachings but said “His principal objections are that Christians do not follow them.”
9wkap TIL about Bicameral Mentality, a hypothesis which argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be “speaking”, and a second part which listens and obeys.
6lVJ TIL that in 1927 Pez candy was created to help people quit cigarettes. In 1948 the dispenser was created to mimic a lighter. It wasn’t until the 50s that it was made into a children’s toy.
l76m5 TIL the first use in print of the term 'heavy metal' to describe a genre of music was in the review of Sir Lord Baltimore's 1970 debut album, Kingdom Come, in Creem magazine.
a8w8o TIL followers of the Yazidi religion do not eat lettuce, as it is thought that when a 13th century Yazidi saint was executed, the crowd pelted him with heads of lettuce.