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TIL, the world's expensive coffee, the civet coffee (kopi luwak) was discovered during Dutch colonial rule when farmers try to "smuggle" coffee using civet's digestive system

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8egXL TIL all the instruments on Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You are either programmed or from a synthesizer. Carey’s co-writer on the song, Walter Afanasieff originally had a live band do the instrumental but was unsatisfied with the result and redid it by himself.
yY7a TIL Károly Takács, a right handed Hungarian shooter, severely injured his right (shooting) hand in a grenade explosion. He retrained himself with his left hand and went on to win 2 Olympic Golds 10 years later.
neeOr In part, we’re really just going back to our caveman roots.
nWJeo TIL Frank Sinatra passed away during the night of Seinfeld's final episode, and his ambulance was able to quickly reach the hospital due to the reduced traffic resulting from the widespread viewership.
Xa6Q TIL that most people have some sort of herpes and it wasn’t actually stigmatized until a drug company found a way to profit from it.