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TIL Opals actually became unpopular in 1829 and sales dropped 50% all because of one book.

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1Vld TIL that a young French soldier requested service in the Russian military and was rejected twice. That young man was Napoleon Bonaparte.
v1kPx TIL in 1938 William Cooper led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to hand over a petition protesting the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.” 70 years later Israel planted 70 trees in remembrance of the protest
An0d TIL Tony Wild, the man who introduced Kopi Lewak (coffee found in the feaces of a species of south asian cat) to the west, launched a campaign to ban the product due to the massive cruelty in producing the coffee.
xVZVD TIL the streaking scene in Old School was filmed at night and every store was closed except a 24 hour gym. On the first take, several people in the gym shriek in horror as a naked Will Ferrell passed by them. In the ensuing takes no one was near the gym's windows.
Lk1X9 The winds at Jupiter’s surface, some of the most powerful in the solar system, influence the planet’s gravitational field, the latest observations show. This means that Jupiter’s signature, crisscrossing bands don’t just exist on the surface of the atmosphere. Jupiter’s wind flows actually extend 3,000 kilometres (about 1,860 miles) below the cloud tops, where the pressure is about 100,000 times that of the atmosphere at Earth’s surface.