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TIL that arabs had banned the export of unroasted coffee beans so that everyone would have to continue buying it from them but an Indian saint Budan smuggled 7 seeds in his beard risking capital punishment thereby starting the coffee production in India and ending arabian monopoly on it.

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M7A5m TIL Huy Fong’s sriracha (rooster sauce) almost exclusively used peppers grown by Underwood Ranches for 28 years. This ended in 2017 when Huy Fong reneged on their contract, causing the ranch to lose tens of millions of dollars.
9wpwD TIL of Peter Bergmann, aka the Irish Somerton man, a mysterious man who was found dead on a beach in Sligo, Ireland in 2009 with no ID, no documentation and no money, who had given a fake name and address at the hotel he was staying. He has never been identified.
rNd1x TIL that WWII British commandos were trained to instinctively take cover by having live ammunition shot 3 to 5 feet from them if they needlessly exposed themselves while maneuvering
KYbjG TIL that Earth's atmosphere is leaking. Every day, around 90 tonnes of material escapes from our planet's upper atmosphere and streams out into space.
5VVlD TIL that Mongolia built a 130 foot statue of Genghis Khan in 2008. 782 years after his death in 1226 A.D.