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TIL Vietnam is the second largest exporter of coffee in the world

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epmK4 TIL that American physicist Richard Feynman once faced off against a Japanese abacus expert to see which could calculate faster. The abacus consistently won on more simple operations, but Feynman was faster in division and complex calculations such as cube roots.
7joM TIL There’s a brewery in Germany that’s almost 1,000 years old. It has been in continuous operation since the year 1040
x64X0 TIL that in 2009, a campaign succeeded in making Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name' the Christmas number 1 best-selling single in the UK after the public grew tired of X Factor winners topping the chart every year.
N7jlJ TIL the original gymnasiums were in Greece and were only for adult males ....in the nude.
vPPlB TIL of Brucellosis, a disease that spreads by eating or even just inhaling bacteria from infected animals or unpasteurized dairy products. It has many symptoms, from joint pain to liver damage to depression, and was the first disease ever weaponized by the United States for bio-warfare.