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TIL beer was invented in 6000 B.C, 2000 years before the invention and use of the wheel in 4000 B.C

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WkRx4 TIL that Prince has used many names in his lifetime, such as Alexander Nevermind, Christopher Tracy, The Kid, The Purple Purv, The Minneapolis Midget, & finally The Artist Formerly Known As Prince. As a child he was called Skipper.
oBvXW TIL Boris Yeltsin abandoned communism partly due to a visit to a Randall's Grocery store in Clear Lake, TX
KOm46 TIL that after the Persian King Khosrow razed the Byzantine city of Antioch he moved the citizens to a new city he name Wēh Antīōk Khosrow literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"
Pb5V TIL that there are only 10 modern countries that have never been (in their entirety) a colony of a European empire: Liberia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, North/South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia.
LkXVr TIL at the Battle of Cowpens during the American Revolution, an American officer used his Spontoon (spear) to pole vault onto, and capture, a British cannon