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TIL in 1854 men working in a brewery in London drank only beer which saved them from the Cholera outbreak

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ZoYG TIL starting in 2017 San Francisco will require new buildings to have solar panels
4kv4a TIL about Sierra Mixe corn, a crop that can grow in nitrogen-depleted soil due to its aerial roots that secret a mucus to host symbiotic bacteria which fertilizes the plant.
gLab TIL in 1995, the company Namco patented “auxiliary games” that play while the main game loads, thus forbid other game titles to have those. The patent expired earlier this year.
0dwWj TIL that French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier discovered Bouvet Island in 1739 but then mislabelled the coordinates, causing it to be lost until it's rediscovery 8 decades later in 1808.
d8P58 TIL: Isa Hayes, who was one of the marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, played himself in the movie The Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne.