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

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lO8A TIL Fritos are made of only three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt.
p8O7p TIL Hitler was an avid reader, having read at least 6,000 books, and would quote Shakespeare throughout WWII. He ranked Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, and Robinson Crusoe as the great works of world literature.
d9xZ TIL Angelina Jolie purchased 60,000 hectares of Cambodian land that was infiltrated by poachers and turned it into a wildlife reserve. Some of the former poachers were employed as rangers.
9Y1Lm TIL "jadebergs" are stunning icebergs formed when seawater containing algae freezes on the bottom of a glacier.
OYr1 TIL the Wheel of Time book series took 23 years and 2 authors to complete