TIL Cockaigne is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of luxury & ease, comfort & pleasure, opposite to the harshness of medieval peasant life. In poems like “The Land of Cockaigne”, it is a land where all the restrictions of society are defied with sexual
TIL that only 2 towns in the entire world have an exclamation mark in their name! Those towns are: 1. Westward Ho! (located in Devon, in the United Kingdom) and 2. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! (located in Quebec, Canada).
TIL that notoriously emasculated husband John Bobbit later also lost all his toes in a contaminated water scandal at army base Camp Lejeune, located in North Carolina, where he was stationed in the late 1980s.
TIL in the movie "Scream" (1996) there is a section in the credits saying "No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board", bc the Santa Rosa Board revoked permissions to film there last minute, which cost the production $350,000.
TIL "Old Man Trump" is a song with lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. The song describes the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord, Fred Trump.