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TIL that that the world's most expensive coffee is made from animal poop

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R5Lx6 TIL that at almost 90 years old, musician/A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert still performs live.
RvY4 TIL: The world’s first electronic digital wristwatch was introduced in 1972 and cost $2,100.00 (about $11,400 today) and by the end of the 70’s digital watches were being sold for $10.00.
VBA7B TIL that one of the main perpetrators of the Putumayo genocide escaped justice and continued to exploit the same tribes. Before the Putumayo border change in 1933, Miguel S. Loayza forced the migration of 6,719 natives in to Peru. More than half of them died. Loayza survived into his nineties.
rRBRM TIL an ancient Mayan pyramid was torn down in 2013 and used for road fill!
d8Z8E TIL of Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos. When ordered by the occupying Nazis to compile a list of Jews resident on the island, he handed over a piece of paper with a single name on it; his own.