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TIL Chuck Berry’s classic song “Johnny B. Goode” is included on the Golden Record of both Voyager space probes.

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p8pXN TIL that Cher was the first woman to regularly display her belly button on television, becoming the first woman to do so in front of a live studio audience in 1971
ZRAp TIL that finnish people recieves a top hat and a sword when completing their doctoral degree.
Vr7p TIL male penguins have been observed having sex with other male penguins, having sex with dead penguins and having sex with unwilling female penguins. When this was discovered in 1912, it was considered too lewd to publish.
PM5Z TIL that Hitler predicted the Cold War. “there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other – the United States and Soviet Russia.”
Lwlp TIL Until 1616 coffee was essentially a monopoly run by Yemen. Merchants were forbidden to sell live coffee plants or seeds. That changed when Pieter van der Broecke, a Dutch merchant, stole coffee seeds and brought them back to Holland. 40 years later coffee had traveled as far as Sri Lanka.