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TIL that boiling beans with the epazoté herb greatly reduces the gas the beans create while digesting

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oBkyY TIL the New York City Blackout of 1977 helped ignite the Hip-Hop scene. Prior to the outage, there was only a handful of DJ’s in the area, which was suffering economically. After, there were over a 1000 DJ’s due to people looting the music equipment stores during the blackout. Hip-hop had exploded.
BvXL TIL Before Chernobyl, the Soviets had another massive nuclear disaster which contaminated over 20,000 square km. The area was turned into a preserve to cover up the accident. The CIA knew of the accident, but also covered it up in order to protect the fledgling US nuclear industry from hysteria.
0wAZN TIL that prior to 1922, an American woman lost her citizenship if she married a foreigner.
KOeeG TIL cats only meow to humans & dont meow to each other
P1rXE TIL that the Great Seattle Fire which destroyed Seattle’s central business district and caused an estimated 20 million (700 million adjusted) dollars worth of damage in 1889 was caused by an overheated glue pot in a carpentry shop.