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TIL the art of Rap Battles (poetic verbal abuse) was first recorded in 15th century Scotland and called Flyting. Although contestants attacked each other spiritedly, they actually had a professional respect for their rival’s vocabulary of invective and would often drink with the loser afterwards.

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0w4oL TIL: Only one commercial entity in America can import Coco Leaves with approval from the DEA, The Stepan Company, after extracting the Cocaine, the leaves are then shipped to Coca Cola to be used as an ingredient in the secret recipe thus making an imitation recipe near impossible.
WdBB TIL the co-founder of Pinkberry beat a homeless man with a tire iron after the homeless man flashed a tattoo that the co-founder thought was offensive. He’s now doing seven years in prison.
BrENW TIL that Snoopy's doghouse is always shown from the side so as to never reveal the interior, leaving what's inside to the reader's imagination. There was only one exception: on May 8, 1960, the inside of the doghouse can be seen. It's just an empty doghouse.
ADyel TIL about the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which is the only environmental treaty signed by every country in the world to stop the depletion of the ozone layer. Thanks to the treaty, 98% of ozone-depleting substances have been phased out and 2 million people are saved from skin cancer each year.
yNxM TIL Maynard James Keenan from Tool once “spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience” when the band learned at the last minute that the venue belonged to L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology.