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TIL the British were not always heavy tea drinkers. They only switched to tea after an introduced plant rust wiped out most of the world’s coffee crops in the late 1800s.

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6Em17 TIL that Wendy Carlos is not only the pioneer of EM (soundtracks composed include Clockwork Orange and The Shining) but also an inspiration for the LGTBQ community as the first trans woman to come out publically.
kYKe TIL that in a comic Han Solo and Chewbacca crashland on Earth,Han is killed,Chewbacca is mistaken for Bigfoot and Hans remains are found by Indiana Jones a 100 years later.
a0vM TIL Teddy Roosevelt was a staunch conservationist and banned Christmas trees from the White House
EgQm0 TIL in World War II several U.S railroad companies sponsored military “railway battalions” to help with the war effort. Company bosses became military officers and 1000’s of American railroad employees joined the effort throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
076A TIL there is a “reverse anorexia” causing (primarily) men with already muscular bodies to feel too small.