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TIL the English Language Day at the UN is on the same day as Spanish Language Day at the UN.

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pYAge TIL there's a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding. It's a fruit native to Central and South America called diospyros nigra, or black sapote, that tastes like chocolate and sweet custard.
wj4E TIL David Cope created a piece of software called Emily Howell, which could analyze sheet music of an artist and then write songs in the artist’s style. When professional musicians and reviewers were asked which song was written by Beethoven and which by Emily, most were unsure or wrong.
wLrRW TIL that excessive lurking on Facebook can negatively impact people's emotional well being and their satisfaction with life
aMrb TIL that in 1958 after six-year-old white girl Sissy Marcus playfully kissed seven-year-old black boy David Simpson as nine-year-old James Thomson -also black- stood by, both boys were arrested for “molestation” and sentenced to reform school until they reached the age of twenty-one.
ZNaG TIL that Szechuan Sauce comes from the Asian Sichuan peppercorn which was banned in the US from 1968 to 2005 because it carried canker bacteria. The FDA lifted the ban provided that the peppercorns were heated to to kill any bacteria before import. The bacteria was only harmful to other crops.