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TIL of coffee, was discovered by a goat, and later an Ethiopian shepherd found that his sheep were excited after eating coffee berries, and he boiled the berries to make the prototype of the first cup of coffee in history

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V9AD TIL: in 2015 more Americans died of prescription opiate overdoses than were murdered or died in traffic accidents.
mxQvy TIL that there are many types of bagpipes from all over the world.
nWGy9 TIL in 1982, 7 people in the Chicago area died after ingesting Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. James William Lewis sent an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to "stop the killings." While he was convicted of extortion, he was never charged with the murders.
9Yx66 TIL a professor at Baylor University started the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project by collecting thousands of songs and photos from the 1940s to the 1980s, and these lost pieces of history are available online, free of charge.
BgW4k TIL the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, took its name from Roman hero Cincinnatus and also the Society of the Cincinnati, a group committed to the virtues of the Roman hero.