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TIL That Easter Can Happen On March
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TIL, Fermented elephant coffee, also known as Black Ivory Coffee, is a rare and expensive coffee that is made by feeding Arabica coffee cherries to elephants to ferment in their digestive systems... and collecting the Poo...
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TIL Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln. Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four generations removed, of former President Abraham Lincoln. Their common ancestor is John Hanks (1680 - 1740), who was the great-great-grandfather of Lincoln and the six-time great-grandfather of Tom Hanks.
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TIL that Antarctica has a museum, gift shop and post office in the same building, known as Port Lockroy, which is all open to the public. It is operated by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Around 70,000 cards are sent from the post office each year.
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TIL Years after her death, an archive of Marilyn Monroe’s poems, letters, notes, recipes, and diary entries surfaced. The archive included Monroe admitting that her first marriage, at the age of 16, was to keep her out of the orphanage when her caretaker was in the psychiatric hospital.
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TIL the term sensory-specific satiety, which is where your body can get “full” of one specific type of food but then get a renewed appetite for another type. The concept explains why you can finish a big meal and not be hungry anymore, but then happily eat dessert.