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TIL that we don't REALLY know who invented coffee, though we know its origins in and around the Arabian peninsula in the 15th century

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EYlV TIL that while Shawshank Redemption never won an Academy Award, the movie Speed won 2.
49v6 TIL Mary Donaldson, a 28-year-old Australian who worked at a real estate firm, met a Danish guy at a Sydney pub in the year 2000. He was Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, and she is now the Crown Princess of Denmark.
grmw9 TIL General Alexander Suvorov, a war criminal responsible for massacre of Praga in 1794, is a historical celebrity commemorated in Switzerland
b9rKQ TIL that the word palindrome spelled backwards is emordnilap and an emordnilap is actually a word that, when spelled backwards, makes a new word (ex: desserts & stressed). So basically, "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome.
YpEMP TIL in the Pliocene, 3 million years ago, the world was about 2C warmer than now, and sea levels were somewhere between 10M and 40M higher than now. 2C is also the rise we hope to keep below by 2100.