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TIL the average college student consumes over 16 ounces (0.5 kg) of dairy per day

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GAMLN TIL that the last words of Terry Kath (guitarist and vocalist of Chicago) were:"What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow My Brains out?" Before he put a gun that still had a round in the chamber to his temple and pulled the trigger. 8 days before his 32nd birthday.
GAdR4 TIL that the medieval Anglo Saxon king Offa of Mercia had minted coins that had his seal on one side and simply imitated Abbasid dinars on the other, complete with an inscription in arabic: “There is no God but God”. Discovered in Rome, speculations were made it could have been a gift to the pope.
xoNg TIL Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple, sold his 10% stake of the company in 1976 for $800. Had he kept his stock, it would have been worth over $58,000,000,000 today.
Yp5Lx TIL The Battle of Adwa in 1896 saw Ethiopia win a decisive victory against Italy, securing Ethiopia's independence for another 40 years. In that period Ethiopia was hailed as the only surviving African state to defeat a European colonial power in open battle
XxKD TIL London has an elevated system of walkways between buildings that was more or less abandoned in the 1980s.