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TIL Aztecs felt a responsibility to sacrificed everyday, letting blood and cutting hearts to keep the sun in motion. Those sacrificed thought they would come back as hummingbirds.

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Zgn4 TIL the coffee drink “Americano or caffé Americano” was created in World War II when American G.I.s in Italy would dilute espresso with hot water to approximate the coffee to which they were accustomed.
9wxVQ TiL the only living survivors of the sinking of the Tirpitz are trees - and they'll happily tell you what they saw.
j6MQv TIL in 1968 the state of Florida began to build a gigantic airport for supersonic jets in the Florida Everglades but was stopped by an environmental coalition after a federal report found the project would “inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem” and the Everglades
M7XpB TIL that a third type of twins exist: "Semi-identical" - When a single egg is fertilized by two sperm and then splits.
0dNJR TIL King Tammany Day was once a hugely popular holiday in America, even celebrated by George Washington and the Continental Army at Valley Forge