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TIL that lemons float while limes sink

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78lRb TIL in 1788 the Hapsburg Monarchy lost between 1,000 and 10,000 soldiers in a battle that the Ottomans didn't show up to due to drunken scouts and lack of communication due to many different languages being spoken within the army.
VjAG TIL the Chinese Fortune Cookie is almost completely unheard of in China. The few places that do, label them as “Genuine American Fortune Cookies.”
rNwyo TIL darker coffee roasts have less caffeine.
wLAj6 TIL about Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish sailor who was shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula in 1511 and taken as a slave by a Mayan lord. He earned his freedom, became a respected Mayan warrior, and died fighting Spanish colonization of indigenous lands.
wWxY TIL, from 1860-1916, the British Army required every soldier to have a mustache.