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TIL that Spacex's Crew Dragon runs on Linux

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R57Oj TIL that during the East German coffee crisis in the 1970s, care packages from the West ended up providing an estimated 25% of all coffee in East Germany. Demand for the fruit bread which was the traditional return gift was so high a minister proposed a ban on gifting it.
v1Gwx TIL a 74 year old Japanese man, dressed as a ninja and possessing great physical ability, carried out 254 break-ins worth $260,000 before he was caught by police
Wkxk9 TIL Food Network's 'Chopped' was originally supposed to be set in a mansion with the host being a butler. The butler was also to be holding a Chihuahua and when a chef was chopped, the losing dish was fed to the Chihuahua.
xVBo7 TIL that the number of Jews worldwide as of 2019, is the same number of Jews there were in 1925, pre-WW2.
E1B0V TIL about Gen Peter Hains who served in the Civil War, the Spanish American war and WWI as a military engineer. He also designed the layout of the Panama Canal