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TIL drinking tea was made popular in England by Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II, who brought the ritual with her from her native country of Portugal.

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gralb TIL that thousands of Graffiti inscriptions, with the earliest dating back to 1605 by the first Spanish Governor of New Mexico, have been carved into the El Morro National Monument in New Mexico.
be79 TIL chickens were first domesticated not for the purpose of food or egg production but for cock fighting, and in fact it wasn’t until the 20th century that egg and meat production began to be stressed.
mX0v TIL Al Gore won the Noble Prize over a woman who saved 2,500 children during the Holocaust
6EoEW TIL The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones and connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
kORje TIL that the tiniest piece of ceramic (like from a broken sparkplug) can shatter tempered glass with minimum force.