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TIL of a machine weighing 200 tons that could stream music…over a century ago

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VB6X0 TIL about St Catherine's Monastery at Mt Sinai in Egypt. Built (548 - 565AD) by order of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, to enclose the area of the Burning Bush seen by Moses. It is the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Also contains the oldest continually operating library.
wAp1 TIL Peanut butter in Dutch is called “Peanut cheese” because the word butter is only supposed to be used with products that contain actual butter.
pYnlN TIL that carriers of Phenylketonuria, an inherited genetic disorder of the metabolism, are protected against the fungal toxin Ochratoxin A that occurs in grains. This accounts for the persistence of the allele in certain populations: it confers a "selective advantage."
9Y8X TIL that according to a professor of economics at New York University, after receiving $600 billion in foreign aid over 45 years, there’s “basically been zero rise in living standards” in Africa.
JYax4 TIL you are more likely to get bit by a Chihuahua than a pit bull.