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TIL: Lefties Aren’t Allowed to Play Polo

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6nMZ TIL coffee was originally a food, not a drink. Early East African tribes mixed the coffee berries (the unhulled bean) with animal fat, forming the first ‘power bars’.
x6Q41 TIL that in 1897 an Indiana physician believed he found a new mathematical proof to square the circle. He convinced a legislator to propose a bill that would declare π equal to 3.2. While Indiana could teach this proof for free, other states would need to pay a fee to teach it. The bill did not pass
QNrZa TIL The Royal Society of Chemistry once suggested that a Yorkshire pudding should rise to at least four inches tall to be considered authentic.
W7D0o TIL Pedro Pascal’s family is leftist Chilean aristocracy that fled to the US to escape persecution after the 1973 coup d’etat
LYm0 TIL the band Vulfpeck crowdfunded a free concert tour by uploading an album Sleepify to Spotify and asking their friends to play it on repeat while they slept. The album consisted only of 10 short silent tracks. Before Spotify removed the album the band had made the royalties amounting over $20,000.