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TIL, “Catsup” is one of the earlier variations of the word that eventually evolved into “ketchup.” While “ketchup” now specifically refers to the tomato sauce, “catsup” originally described a wider variety of sauces, not necessarily tomato-based.

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N7VnJ TIL that Condom Cathedral is a Catholic church and former cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter, and a national monument of France, located in Condom, Gers. It was formerly the seat of the Bishops of Condom.
6EnrQ TIL: the word "tycoon" is from the Japanese "taikun", meaning "great prince", and made the jump to English in the 1850s largely because it was used to describe Abraham Lincoln
Oka6 TIL that in 1969 President Richard Nixon had proposed a form of Basic Income (or Negative Income Tax) for poor families in the US, but it was promptly defeated in the senate.
kJOv5 TIL Fine restaurateur Thomas Keller of The French Laundry in California served as food consultant to the Pixar film Ratatouille, allowing its producer, Brad Lewis, to intern for two days in the kitchen of his restaurant.
b95Ya TIL that the north star is 4000 times brighter than our sun. The light we see when we look at the north star was generated in the year 1587, and it has been traveling through space for 434 years to reach us.