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TIL Caitlyn Jenner was a race car driver.

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1ZVO TIL: The Ambiguously Gay Duo were voiced by Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert
pbNO TIL Until 1616 coffee was essentially a monopoly run by Yemen. Merchants were forbidden to sell live coffee plants or seeds. That changed when Pieter van der Broecke, a Dutch merchant, stole coffee seeds and brought them back to Holland. 40 years later coffee had traveled as far as Sri Lanka.
ADgjx TIL John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ lost the top of his middle finger as a kid and had special prosthetic made. He played a prank on Peter Jackson where he cut off the tip of the prosthetic, covered it with blood, walked up to Peter and said, “Boss, I had an accident.”
DQ9xV TIL: The word lens comes from lēns, the Latin name of the lentil (seed of a lentil plant) because a double-convex lens is lentil-shaped. The lentil also gives its name to a geometric figure.
ZX9p TIL That West Virginia is the only state to have seceded from another state. in 1871 Virginia took West Virginia to the Supreme court to force its return.