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TIL after Portuguese explorers completed the first sea route to India in 1498 and disembarked in Calicut, the first people they met were two Spanish-speaking Tunisian merchants who said: "The Devil take you! What brought you here?". They responded: "We came in search of Christians and of spices".

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0BW5 TIL that there existed a system in British boarding private schools in which the younger students would act as personal servants to the older ones. It was called “fagging,” with some of the older boys acting as “fag-masters” and the servants as “fags.”
VO4p TIL that the idea for the South Park episode “Bebe’s Boobs Destroy Society” came from a party Trey attended where he witnessed two drunk friends grunting like gorillas over a woman.
mxAyY TIL El Salvador's former national currency was the Colon which was in use from 1892 to 2001. It was named after Christopher Columbus known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish.
GR8Q TIL a UK customs officer tried to get rid of his wife by waiting until she had gone abroad - and then entering her name into the “Do-Not-Fly List”. She was stranded abroad for 3 years.
lo47r TIL Elvis Presley, throughout his entire career, performed in only three venues that weren't in the United States. The three venues were all in Canada. Presley performed in them during brief tours in Canada in 1957.