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

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RAN4 TIL that Hitler’s Third Reich awarded a gold, diamond-engraved Cross of the German Mother to women upon the birth of their thirteenth child.
6LRJ TIL Nicolas Cage has already bought his grave. It’s a 9-foot pyramid in New Orleans.
16oo8 TIL The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was only caught because he sent a 35,000 word essay to the FBI explaining his motives and views, which helped to identify him. Before that, he had been operating for 17 years with the FBI having very little idea or leads to his identity.
E1MoX TIL of the Pioneer Plaque, a pair of plaques sent on the Pioneer spacecrafts that included a naked man, a naked woman, and a diagram representing the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque was designed to transmit information to potential aliens who might intercept Pioneer 10 and 11.
DMJD TIL that the entire student body of the University of Mississippi enlisted into the Confederate Army during the Civil War and suffered a 100% casualty rate.