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TIL Ernest Hemingway created a hamburger recipe with 10 ingredients including India relish, wine, and a beaten egg

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VVRk TIL - The word for the dot in i & j has a name and is called - “Tittle”
oRvM7 TIL that between 1998 and 2015, the Defense and Housing and Urban Development departments had reported $21 trillion in "unsupported adjustments". That is, $21 trillion missing in tax payer money; They cannot track it, nor do they know what it was spent on. That's 65,000 lost dollars per American.
v1Z47 TIL that Mozart had an extreme dislike for the soprano Adriana Ferrarese del Bene. She had a strange tendency to bob her head to low and high notes, and knowing this, Mozart chose to fill her showpiece with constant harmonic leaps. He took great pleasure watching her bob her head "like a chicken".
VMmnk TIL The band Fleetwood Mac seriously considered thanking their drug dealer in their album credits for Rumours.They ultimately decided against it after their drug dealer was murdered.
nWjNB TIL that employees at N.A.S.A. smoked on average 29 cigarettes a day before the first moon landing.