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TIL George Washington Carver created Worcestershire sauce.

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JND4 TIL former US President Calvin Coolidge enjoyed ringing for his bodyguards and hiding while they desperately searched for him.
rWw4 TIL that the co-founder of Paypal, Max Levchin, coded non-stop for 5 days without sleep and then finished the product 1 hour before he received $4.5 million in funding
m10kM TIL: San Francisco is no longer the most expensive place to live.
ABY4 TIL a Soviet soccer player was so popular that when he was sent to the Siberian gulags during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, he was treated rather well as the gulag commanders were also his fans, who gave him better quarters and food rations, and was even asked to coach the local teams.
9aDD TIL Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation in the world except for Thailand