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TIL South Park’s character “Chef” was inspired by an actual dining hall worker encountered by series co-creator Trey Parker while he attended the University of Colorado.

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XEBVj TIL that Kennedy Island in the Solomon Islands is named after President Kennedy who swam there after his boat was sunk by the Japanese in WWII. It was purchased in 2004 for less than a thousand US dollars by someone coincidentally named Kennedy.
NXnQ TIL tempura was introduced to the Japan by the Portuguese
QNMoX TIL The Identical Ancestor Point in humans is estimated to be most likely about ~5400 BC. Anyone with even one living descendant who was alive before the IAP is also an ancestor to all humans alive today.
Qvop TIL John Quincy Adams was the first American president to grant a woman reporter an interview (Anne Royall) and did so because she sat on his clothes while he bathed nude in the Potomac River.
Z8ZLa TIL more land is used for opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca (the basis of cocaine) in all of Latin America