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TIL that Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay explaining exactly what he meant when writing The Raven

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Wkm6X TIL of a term 'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' which is "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to go to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."
NXvVJ TIL about Chai tea, naan bread, and double names
9YGNM TIL Europe's first beer fountain in Žalec, Slovenia was built by the town community using the tax money collected from a resident who won the Eurojackpot lottery. In the fountain, it's possible to drink different beers from five taps with a special microchipped glass.
wLKy7 TIL astronaut Gus Grissom named the Gemini 3 Molly Brown, in the hope that it wouldn't sink after splashdown. NASA didn't like it and asked him to change the name, to which he replied, "How about the Titanic?" NASA relented, but this was the last time astronauts were allowed to name their capsule.
Ogg1 TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around. Until that time the colour was referred to as yellow-red and may be why red hair got its misnomer.