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TIL chocolate milk is said to me invented in Jamaica, but humans have been enjoying chocolate since ~350 B.C.

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KO6L4 TIL the inventor of the labradoodle deeply regrets his actions.
bpr9 TIL Brother Theodore was imprisioned in Dachau until he signed over his family’s fortune. He went to Switzerland but was kicked out for chess hustling. Einstein helped him escape to the US and he became a janitor in Stanford where he beat 30 professors simultaneously. Then he became an actor.
GY5G1 TIL you (YES YOU) can hear the difference between HOT and COLD water
gxWy TIL The number of Americans who believed homosexuality is a sin actually went up between 2013-2014 (45%-50%)
R5LAa TIL Because tungsten and gold have almost identical weights, fake gold bars and coins made from tungsten cannot be identified by the usual method of density testing, and ultrasound has to be used instead.