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TIL a 1970s East German currency shortage lead to the modern Vietnamese coffee industry

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AD86w TIL Princeton's Roger Nelson PhD proposes that human consciousness affects the variance in randomness of hardware-based random number generators. Since 1998, Nelson's Global Consciousness Project uses a global network to create random data over time, which is then associated with real-world events.
XkLR TIL that the US Coast Guard would receive telegrams from concerned citizens, who didn’t realize Gilligan’s Island was a scripted show, asking for them to rescue the castaways
mxQby TIL When Frank Sinatra collapsed on stage in 1994, his fans in audience included doctors and a half dozen of them ran up on stage to assist Sinatra
16QWX TIL birds in Australia, known as “fire hawks”, are known to utilize and spread fires in order to flush out prey.
mxjNP TIL Alec Douglas-Home (UK Prime Minister 63-64), Once talked himself out of being kidnapped by telling the kidnappers, he'll win the next election if they do.