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TIL the Big Mac was invented in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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TIL of Alcuin. An English scholar who taught Charlemagne the remnants of Latin culture left in Britain. He also convinced Charles to stop forced baptisms, writing "We must appeal to the conscience, not compel it by violence. You can force people to be baptised, but you cannot force them to believe."
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TIL American chemist Alexander Shulgin personally tested hundreds of drugs, meticulously recording their effects in his lab notebooks. He is also credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s.
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TIL that Ms. Pac-Man was actually built as a hack for Pac-Man by MIT dropouts, and only became "official" because after being sued by Atari for a previous hack, the developers decided to ask Midway's permission.
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TIL that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase got into a fist-fight in John Belushi's dressing room when Chase returned to host SNL where Belushi acted as referee.
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TIL That Hot vents at the ocean Sea bed heat the water up to 400°C and the pressure of the water above stops it from boiling.