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TIL 'expresso' is considered an acceptable variant of 'espresso' by the Oxford English Dictionary.

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5YxBk TIL the Abraham Lincoln Battalion was a group of American fighters in the Spanish Civil War, including a vaudeville acrobat, a rabbi, and the first African-American ever to lead white troops into battle.
awLGN TIL Up until the early 1900s, German used to be the dominant language of international science. "The story of the 20th Century is not so much the rise of English as the serial collapse of German as the up-and-coming language of scientific communication".
e0yJ4 TIL Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The 1929 Lateran Treaty ended the dispute between the Italian government & the Catholic Church, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (> $1 billion today) for the Papal states.
YoXG TIL that New York City in the 70s was known as “Fear City” and a very blunt tourist notice was displayed in order to keep tourists from ending up in dangerous situations.
Egxko TIL Rip was a stray dog adopted by an Air Raid Patrol in WW2. Although not trained for rescue work, he sniffed out over 100 victims trapped beneath buildings. He was awarded the Dickin medal for his work, which has been held partially responsible for prompting the training of search and rescue dogs.