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TIL Coffee Comes From a Fruit

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wvvE TIL that the first commercially produced pet clone was ‘Little Nicky’ a Maine Coon cat. His owner paid $50,000 in 2004 to have her deceased cat 'Nicky’ cloned.
1MbX TIL in 2000 a man in Georgia was shot 16 by police officers and lived. The trauma center surgeon that treated him said that most of the bullets were stopped by the 6'6 225lbs man’s muscles.
v8RB TIL a boy gave General Rahl of the British Army a note from a spy that George Washington was about to cross the Delaware and attack. The general was so immersed in a Chess game that he put the note in his pocket unopened. There it was found when he was mortally wounded in the subsequent battle.
nwjG TIL a Harvard business school professor in Boston threatened to sue a Chinese restaurant, because the prices on their website were out of date. He was over charged a total of $4.
Ypx0W TIL that in 2007, after their Kiowa helicopter was shot down in Iraq, two pilots were rescued when they strapped their bodies to the exterior of an Apache AH-64 helicopter and were flown out of the combat zone.