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TIL that when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia in 1777, saying beer was superior for “breakfast drinking,” people started drinking a coffee substitute called “Muckefuck.”

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kO6Wm TIL there was a vending machine in Seattle, WA, that vended random sodas, but no one knew who owned it, stocked it, or took the money, and now, it has randomly disappeared with a note indicating "Went for a walk."
90Y7 TIL a white woman married an African slave in 1681 Maryland, even though this bound her to serve her husband’s master, and their children would be born into slavery. Their descendants, all slaves, challenged the law, but only her great-great-granddaughter won freedom 100 years later.
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