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TIL: Popcorn is thousands of years old. Fossil evidence from Peru suggests that corn was popped as early as 4,700 BC.

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Me1ba TIL about Kiyomizu-dera, a temple where people used to jump off its 43ft stage due to a belief that those who survived the fall would have their wish granted. Of the 234 jumps recorded during the Edo period, 85.4% survived.
0L1p TIL the word myriad means 10,000, but it can also mean a generically large number. It’s also okay to say “there’s myriad cats” or “there’s a myriad of cats”
NvQ6 TIL that “Rubber duck debugging” is when a programmer explains his code to a rubber duck in hopes of finding a bug
vyZr TIL when McDonald’s first introduced drive-throughs to China, the concept was so foreign that many people would pick up their food through the drive-thru, park their cars, and bring the food inside the restaurant to eat it.
YpNgr TIL that before the 10th century, the queen piece wasn't used in chess. Instead, a piece was used called the vizier piece that represented a high-ranking Muslim political advisor.