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TIL the first automat - a type of fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine without waitstaff - was introduced in Berlin in 1895.

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m1jPP TIL John Patrick Hannan escaped from prison in 1955 by scaling the walls with knotted sheets just 30 days into a 21-month sentence for car theft and assaulting two officers. As of 2023, he had proceeded to evade capture and holds the world record for longest escape from custody.
8aOeL TIL of Oymyakon - the coldest village on earth. The lowest temperature was recorded in January 1924 of −71.2 °C (−96.2 °F). It is known as "The Pole of the Cold". Food includes the frozen raw Arctic fish, white salmon, whitefish, frozen raw horse liver, but they are considered to be delicacies.
M6QA TIL Without the Vikings, English would not have words like berserk, ugly, muck, skull, knife, die, and cake.
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bbl4 TIL that a Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, a Medieval Persian scholar, put forward the basic theory of evolution 600 years before Darwin was born