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TIL: All Potatoes originated near modern day Peru
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TIL that a British midshipman, Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, managed to survive the torpedoing and sinking of three different warships -- within the space of about an hour
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TIL that whisky company Diageo puts aside barrels of maturing whiskey for its pension plan
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TIL Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism, played piano in a Baptist church as a young boy.
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TIL about Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist who thought up the theory of evolution by natural selection. After recording his expedition findings in the mid 1800’s, Wallace sent his work to his confidant Charles Darwin for a second opinion. Their first paper was a joint effort.
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TIL in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt gave an eighty-four minute campaign speech with an undressed bullet wound in his chest.