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TIL Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent

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WEbA TIL that Louis Pasteur wasn’t the first to invent pasteurization. It was a Hungarian man named Preysz Moric who discovered it 3 years before Louis Pasteur, but nobody paid any attention him, because he published his research papers in Hungarian - a then undecipherable language.
4a0X TIL that x represents the unknown in Algebra only because there isn’t a ‘sh’ sound in Spanish. The Arabic word شيءٌ (shay'on, literally 'something’) was originally used to denote the unknown in a math equation. It was translated to Chi (X) when the Arabs brought Algebra to Spain.
R5N96 Til there is increasing evidence in favor of protective effects of coffee consumption in development and progression of liver disease
wkJ1 TIL: The money required to eradicate hunger for everyone in the world has been estimated at 30 billion per year…about as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
ZAAB TIL music sounds better when heard with the left ear, while the right ear is more efficient at deciphering speech.