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TIL caffe mocha gets its name from a port town of Mokha in Yemen, which was a port city famous for coffee trade in 15th century

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M7Ej8 TIL about Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, when a massive dust storm hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high tore through Oklahoma and Texas. Temperatures dropped 30+ degrees in 2 hours as the storm turned day into night, plunging the Southern Plains into total darkness.
KO5ME TIL that the treadmill was first introduced as a Prison Rehabilitation Device, meant to cause the incarcerated to suffer and learn from their sweat. When Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years in prison in 1895, he was forced to use a treadmill as part of his punishment.
pjpb TIL of the steamship Eastland, which, in 1915, capsized while still tied to the dock in Chicago. New safety laws which rushed through Congress after the Titanic sinking mandated so much safety gear installed that the ship was top heavy and rolled over, killing 844 people.
rK4 TIL that until 1987 all media stations were legally required to provide fair and balanced coverage to controversial issues
JXGm TIL the African Union intends to have a single, continent-wide currency modeled on the Euro. One proposed name for the currency is the “Afro.”