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TIL: The Smurfs has been called "kiddie cocaine" for people growing up during the 1980s.

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woK96 TIL about ISSpresso, an espresso machine Italian coffee maker Lavazza created for the ISS. It was used in space between 2015 and 2017. Use of the machine was done in conjunction with a zero-g espresso cup. Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti became the first person to drink an espresso in space
mJgP TIL after French soldier Jean Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that the Swedes decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, despite him never having set foot in Sweden before. The House of Bernadotte rules Sweden to this day.
kOPN1 TIL that two French inventors who had never heard of each other before presented nearly identical techniques for producing color photographs on the same day in 1869 to the French Society for Photography.
D0V TIL there is a punctuation mark that combines a question mark and a comma that was patented in 1992.
byx4 TIL in 1440 a clerical error accidentally gave independence to a square mile of Italy, forming an anarchist republic that lasted over four hundred years.