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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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7JMx TIL that Aaron Bruno, lead singer of AWOLNATION, wrote and recorded “Sail” in two hours, in one take. The sound engineer felt it needed a redo because of some distortion. Bruno replied “Who cares? No one’s gonna care about this song anyway.”
VM1O0 TIL powdered juice drinks like Tang were an absolute flop until astronauts took them into space for eating experiments in 1962. Astronauts preferred Tang over other all of the other drinks they brought to space because it was easy to make. It had nothing to do with flavor.
0wJdR TIL the pocket calculator, patented in 1967, was one of the earliest uses of rechargable batteries. One of the creators, Jerry Merryman, saw it not just as a pocket calculator, but as an "electionic revolution," bringing buttons, thermal printing, and rechargable batteries to the forefront.
5VMr TIL almost all asians have a birth mark called Mongolian spot (blue butt)
9YgDm TIL The United States Government encouraged Nazis to emigrate to the states and compensated them in exchange for foreign intelligence. Many of them were war criminals, yet they faced little to no punishment and were allowed to live out the rest of their lives in America