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TIL of Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat harder credited with discovering coffee after observing his goats dancing and acting erratically upon eating the beans.

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xBW7 TIL in 1897, there were plans to build a bicycle “superhighway” that would have run between Pasadena and Los Angeles.
GoY1 TIL Japanese do not call atomic bomb explosions “mushroom clouds”, they call them “pillar of fire” - because that was how they saw and experienced it.
v1g4R TIL There is no US Army base named for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the US, Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, 16th Chief of the Army, and champion of Civil Rights.
VdMB TIL that Penguinone, an organic chemical compound, got its name from the fact that its molecular structure resembles a penguin.
1ZQ8 TIL when Irish UN peacekeepers were sieged during the Congo-UN intervention, they radioed “We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey”