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

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woxr8 TIL that "Robot" was a word used first in 1920 by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots) Although, in the play the "Robots" are made of synthetic organic matter and we would call them "Androids" today. The robots end up rebelling against humans
E1L1V TIL about Jack Churchill, who fought on D-Day with a longbow and a broadsword. He announced his presence with bagpipes.
p8nKZ TIL in 1983 a brain wound cured a 19 year old man of OCD and he became a straight A student and retained the same IQ.
78OGr TIL the Sheena Easton hit song 9 to 5 was released in the United States under the alternate title of Morning Train. This is because three months prior Dolly Parton had a hit song in the USA that was also called 9 to 5
XEOyR TIL that when they tried to book a phone call from the President to inform Sgt Dakota Meyer that he had been approved for the Medal of Honor, White House staff were told he was working a construction job and to call back during his lunch hour.