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TIL Injera is a thin, soft fermented baked Ethiopian food made of teff flour using two rounds of complex fermentation process for 24 to 96 hours. It involves making absit first, or fermenting dough leftover after waste water is removed

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p7LZ TIL Anna Williams received a bizarre poem lamenting her absence from her home on the night of April 28th, 1979. The author of the letter? The serial killer, BTK, who had been waiting in her bedroom closet that night.
wody6 TIL Admiral George Dewey withdrew his candidacy for the 1900 election after he was quoted to have said that being President was easy because he would just follow the orders of Congress
A7Ww TIL:We write $10, instead of 10$ (as it is spoken) to prevent forging “I owe you 10.00$” can easily be changed to “I owe you 910.00$” but “I owe you $10.00” can at most be increased by less than a penny to “I owe you $10.0099999”
Wk0l9 TIL that in 2004 a tour bus carrying the Dave Matthews Band through Chicago drove over a bridge and dumped 800 lbs of human waste into the river below, splashing feces and urine onto tourists who were on a sightseeing cruise underneath the bridge.
MKgb TIL: in 1985 Father-In-Law of Howard Schultz sat him down to say “My daughter’s 7 months pregnant and it’s time her husband forgot his hobby and got a real job.” When Howard told his wife she said “No, we’re going to do it.” In 1986 the Schultz’s opened their 1st coffee bar and called it Starbucks