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TIL that there are two species of flowering plants native to Antarctica.

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kJZrg TIL that the Americano cocktail was made in Milan at Caffe Campari, the birthplace of Campari in the 1860s. An American man ordered a Campari and soda and he claimed it was too bitter. Several attempts later, he and the bartender toasted their triumph: an addition of vermouth to create the Americano
GYn45 TIL of Chen Si, a Chinese man who has spent every weekend since 2003 voluntarily patrolling the world's most popular suicide site. As a result, he has prevented over 300 people from jumping over the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.
nWKlY TIL that the first known literary usage of OMG was in a letter written to Winston Churchill in 1917
5VYER TIL In 1956, a woman was awarded $300 in damages by the city of Miami after she was hit on the foot by a falling coconut. It was argued that the city should have been on notice that the coconut was a hazard, because "a reasonable man would assume it was about to fall when it turns brown".
NXvae TIL Finnish babies’ first bed is often a cardboard box. The government sends all expectant mothers a box with baby supplies, and the box includes a small mattress at the bottom meant to stay in the box.