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TIL that the earliest known physical evidence of tea was discovered in 2016 in the mausoleum of Chinese Emperor Jing of Han in Xi'an, indicating that tea was drunk by Han dynasty emperors as early as the second century BC (2,200+ years ago).

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pWvQ TIL that one of the earliest frozen pizza companies was actually run by a family named Pizza
7m6r TIL of “Fritz the Cat,” a 1972 adult animated feature that was the first to ever receive an X rating and became the highest grossing independent animated feature of all time.
ADQy7 TIL that the common tumbleweed (Kali tragus), although used in Westerns to symbolize frontier areas of the United States, is actually an invasive plant from Russia. In the 1870s, it appeared in South Dakota when flaxseed from Russia turned out to be contaminated with Kali seeds.
b9ymj TIL that Italian is often the second language of most older native Italians, and while the locals are said to speak different, they actually predate modern Italian which became the national language in 1861. The “dialects” are often so different that locals can’t understand the other dialects
8a88b TIL The first type of cancer discovered was breast cancer, which was discovered in 1500 BC. The treatment back then was nearly the same as the treatment now, which was to just remove the tumor.