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TIL17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese

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xVDe1 TIL That ancient Greeks hung a branch of bay over the door of a sick person to fend off evil and death. This led to the garlanding of newly qualified doctors with a bay wreath, known as the Bacca laureus in Latin, which gave us the word "baccalaureate" (University Degree).
d8MaE TIL that in 1931, a 15 year old girl suffering from paralysis was mistakenly injected with blood from a pet parrot after her family physician called a nearby hospital for advice and misheard "parent's blood" as "parrot's blood"
9wmM TIL that the Shuttle Enterprise was originally meant to be named “Constitution”. However, after a letter-writing campaign by Star Trek fans directly to Gerald Ford, the president instructed NASA to change the name.
J1Q68 TIL that Frankfurt has a neighborhood w a Mediterranean microclimate, due to sunlight reflected off the river and wind-resistance, where even palms and bananas grow called The Nizza
5Yk6D TIL Frederic John Walker aka Johnnie Walker was the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during WWII credited with 17 U boats destroyed. Walker's last duty was protecting the fleet from U-boats during the Normandy landing before his natural death attributed to overwork and exhaustion.