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TIL Hawaii is the only state in the U.S that grows coffee beans

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OoXWg TIL in the year 2000, a Hawaiian dj unsuccessfully procured a promo album from MCA Records, so he he ended up downloading it off of Napster. He heard "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy on that album, loved it, played it a lot on the radio, and it blew up in Hawaii before anywhere else.
j6Z4j TIL: Cheese doesn't grow in the ground, it's actually made from milk
9Y6L6 TIL that there is a battery-powered bell that was set up in 1840 and has run nearly continuously ever since. It holds the Guinness World Record as "the world's most durable battery delivering ceaseless tintinnabulation (a ringing or tinkling sound).
DpXJ TIL that Richard Nixon was a fan of rap music. In a 1990 interview with the New York Times, he said, “I have often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.”
eAnk TIL if you don’t want to buy a 2014 calendar, you can use 2003, 1997, or many other years.