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TIL Tea has been cutlivated for over 6,000 years, since the Neolithic Age

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YY7Z TIL of a 12 year old boy, Hunter Scott, who in the course of doing a history project for school, found enough evidence to lead to a Congressional investigation that ended up exonerating a US Navy ship’s captain for wrongdoing, 55 years after his court martial.
9YvOX TIL Wolfgang Doeblin, a Jewish-German mathematician fighting for the French during WWII. He committed suicide at 25 after his company was surrounded. A sealed letter he sent to the French Academy of Sciences was opened in 2000, revealing he had already proven a famous result in stochastic calculus.
x6vow TIL that it only takes five minutes for alcohol to affect your brain
P8VJ TIL that cat forelimbs are attached to the shoulder by free-floating clavicle bones, which allow them to pass their body through any space into which they can fit their heads.
Bgw5D TIL the Town of Ixonia, Wisconsin Was Named by “Pulling Letters From a Hat Until a Name Was Formed”. It is the Only Town in the USA With This Name.