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TIL Cola and beer is really common in Germany, its called "diesel"

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K5Ew TIL that Ethiopians cannot enjoy the highest quality coffee produced in their own country, which is the birthplace of coffee. The government only allows lower-quality beans to be sold on the domestic market, in order to promote exports and obtain a harder foreign currency.
BrgMx TIL that most if not all of captive rhesus monkeys carry the herpes B virus, making them especially unsuitable as pets.
raQw TIL that British researchers developed a pheromone-derived odorant that men perceive as ‘threatening’. Collection agencies purchased it at £3000/g after realizing that spraying it on bills increased payment rates by 17%
j5mX TIL that mathematically there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the Observable Universe.
d8VB TIL: If you adjust the price of gasoline in 1918 with 2012 inflation, it would be $3.75/gallon.