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TIL that Ginseng Coffee is a thing and that's popular in Italy

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xVRe0 TIL Brad Fiedel, when composing the now-iconic score for The Terminator, accidentally programmed his musical equipment to the unusual time signature of 13/16 instead of the more conventional 7/8. Fiedel found that he liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness" of the signature and decided to keep it.
51B9 TIL Andre the Giant once drank 156 beers in one sitting and his alcohol tolerance was used as a guideline for anesthesiologists when he underwent surgery.
R7dnQ TIL that a day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus (it takes 243 days for it to rotate on itself and 225 to complete its revolution)
P14BZ TIL Kilmarnock, a town in Scotland celebrates Halloween on the last Friday of the month.
QJWJa TIL In 1944 Franklin Roosevelt was gifted a letter opener made out of the arm bone of a Japanese soldier but had to return it due to the shock and outrage it caused in Japan and the U.S.