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TIL "tutti frutti" means "all the fruits" in Italian.
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TIL that when John Walker used a stick to stir a pot containing antimony sulfide, potassium chlorate & sulfur, some of the mixture stuck to the end of the stick. When he tried to scrape the lump, it easily caught fire (due to friction) & this led to the birth of friction matches.
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TIL that Kobe Bryant is named after Kobe Beef after his parents saw it on a menu at a restaurant.
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TIL The US owes less to other countries than it’s owed.
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TIL that Julius Caesar was arguing with Cato in the senate. A messenger delivered a note to Caesar. Cato told Caesar to read it aloud. Caesar handed the note to Cato to read. The note was actually a love letter from Cato’s sister, who was madly in love with Caesar. Cato said, "Keep it you drunk."
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TIL: Ed Sheeran wrote and recorded most of “I See Fire” for The Hobbit the same day he screened the film, learning violin in the process