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TIL Avocado Toast is not a new dish but has been consumed in San Francisco for 135 years.

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16RZD TIL The main reason why so many English football/soccer clubs use the word ´United´in their name; to signify a union of two teams that were in close proximity, making them a stronger team.
D1P6D TIL of Ina Koenig, a German kindergarten teacher who jumped down a 75-foot mine shaft when one of her 3-year-old students accidentally fell down it. It was filled with cold water. For more than 2 hours, she kept the child’s head above the deluge, saving his life, until helped arrived.
6ENDw TIL the Inuit were colonizers from Siberia that by 1300 AD had completely annihilated the native Dorset tribes.
4k9oR TIL Bob The Builder was altered for Japanese children so they wouldn’t confuse him for a Yakuza member
lQkA TIL although that peat moss (used by farmers and gardeners to improve soil) is removed from Canadian wetlands, there is no need to conserve because it grows back 60 times faster than harvested.