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Til A museum in New York sheds light on the history of chocolate. Anthropologists find, chocolate was produced by pre-Olmec cultures living in Mesoamerica(now Mexico) as early as 1900 B.C. After the Spanish colonized Mexico in 1524, they acquired the recipe of chocolate and brought it to Europe

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74aM TIL of the “Euthanasia Machine” invented by Philip Nitschke, which asks the patient a series of questions, and automatically administers a lethal injection if the correct answers are made.
loOJB TIL: Jo Cameron (71) went her entire life without realizing she didn’t feel pain or anxiety until she got hip replacement surgery.
E10vp TIL Around 20 million men in the US suffer from an anxiety disorder in which they cannot pee if someone is nearby.
RRP6 TIL “Ye olde” is pronounced “The old” (not “yee old”). “y” - pronounced “th” - was an English printer’s abbreviation/substitution for the Runic alphabet’s thorn (þ), a character also used in Medieval English.
RGP4 TIL: According to physics there may exist the opposite of a black hole which cannot be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from it. It is aptly named: a white hole.