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TIL that payphones in Japan provide priority calls during disasters, allowing people to avoid heavy telephone traffic.

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ANp44 TIL of coffee, was discovered by a goat, and later an Ethiopian shepherd found that his sheep were excited after eating coffee berries, and he boiled the berries to make the prototype of the first cup of coffee in history
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