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TIL of Kopi luwak coffee / civet coffee. A highly priced coffee from Indonesia brewed from coffee beans that are eaten, digested and defecated by an Asian palm civet

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YaNv TIL that a man broke into Buckingham Palace, twice. The first time, he wandered around tripping alarms and eating food before getting bored and leaving. The second time, he got into the Queen’s bedroom, and talked to her for 10 minutes before being kicked out.
OGJr7 TIL about the Mariel boatlift, which saw around 125000 people leave Cuba, among them political dissenters, homosexuals and prison inmates
b5Wp TIL Plants Can Recognize and Communicate With Relatives to Work Together
b9EX7 TIL of Project A119 - a US Cold War plan to nuke the moon
DQ45p TIL that in 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote and published a 50,000 word novel, 'Gadsby' which does not contain the letter 'e' . A warehouse containing most copies of the book burned down.