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TIL John Tyler and his second wife (Julia Gardiner) had a Presidential male canary named Johnny Ty who died of a heart attack after they tried to breed it with another male canary

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RNXa TIL the Navajo Native Americans called Hitler “he who smells his mustache”
JYWvl TIL in 1873 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward advocated corset burning. She wrote, "Burn up the corsets! Nor save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded it over your thorax and abdomens and heave a sigh of relief for your emancipation!"
loEmK TIL petit Four (small french pastries) got their name from how they are baked. Traditional brick ovens took a long time to cool down, so to not waste residual heat after baking bread, bakers made smaller cakes at this lower temperature. It was called baking à petit four - literally "at small oven."
b6ROp Today I learned that in South Africa the current Cape of Good Hope was called Cape of Storms because no one knew what lay beyond until the Portuguese passed it and the King renamed it.
b8Dp TIL in the famous Christmas song ‘Twelve days of Christmas’ all the gifts total up to 364 presents, nearly one for every day of the year.