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TIL that Antarctica used to be called Australia until modern-day Australia stole its name in 1824, which left the continent nameless until its current name was adopted in the 1890s.

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E1Z0p TIL the avocado industry in Mexico is so big that the Mexican cartel for years took over farms through extortion. But the city of Tancítaro, the world capital of avocado production, took back their farms back by arming their citizens, building their own police, and bulletproofing their trucks.
nWKnb TIL 1 billion meals were wasted everyday while 783 million people were affected by hunger in 2022
AXed TIL due to its popularity with Muslims, until 1600 church leaders were calling coffee “the bitter invention of Satan”. Upon tasting coffee Pope Clement VIII declared, “This devil’s drink is so delicious…we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.”
rkWe TIL when Alexander the Great was a child, his tutor rebuked him for wasting so much incense during a sacrifice to the gods. Years later, Alexander conquered Gaza and sent back 18 tons of the spices to his old tutor with a note telling him not to be stingy with the gods.
gn0L TIL scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest living animal.