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TIL Coriander and Cilantro are the same thing
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TIL that Disney secretly bought up 10,000 acres of land around DC to build a new theme park. It ultimately never got built because the American history theme would have been too controversial
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TIL that The Wright Brothers achievement of powered human flight went largely unnoticed and unacknowledged by the American public for years.
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TIL the city of Provo, UT invested $40M in iProvo, a broadband network for the city. They never made a profit, and sold in 2013 to Google for $1.
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TIL that during the American Revolutionary War, the British intentionally caused hyperinflation by printing counterfeit American money and selling it at the cost of the paper, instead of its listed value.
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TIL the highest recorded surface temperature on Mars was 95°F or 35°C by the Spirit Rover.