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TIL That the Spread of Thai Restaurants Around the World Was the Result of a Deliberate Operation Backed by the Thai Government

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0dENj TIL that Blue Raspberry is largely Banana and Pineapple flavors. A bright blue dye was used because because the red food dye of the time had been banned.
wo0rP TIL inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu holds 3,377 patents (e.g. the floppy disk). He finds inspiration by going on long underwater swims while holding his breath as long as he can "to starve the brain of oxygen." Then at "0.5 seconds before death" he jots down his idea on a waterproof notepad & surfaces.
YpkOr TIL 'expresso' is considered an acceptable variant of 'espresso' by the Oxford English Dictionary.
6gRJ TIL the Slovakian women’s hockey team qualified for the 2010 Olympics by beating Bulgaria 82-0, and then lost to team Canada in Vancouver 18-0
7rJKL TIL that in response to the cholera outbreak of 1854, Chicago engineers decided to install a sewage system by raising the grade of the city by up to 14 feet. That is, they literally put buildings on stilts and buried the new sewer pipes under the buildings.