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TIL the scientific name for chocolate, theobroma cacao, means 'food of the gods' (Theo meaning deity and broma being archaic English for food)

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aw56o TIL the derelict Tomlinson Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana was destroyed by a fire on January 30, 1958, allegedly after a pigeon dropped a lit cigarette on the roof of the building
Wkxp8 TIL The phrase "cool as a cucumber" is actually a scientific fact: The inside temperature of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.
8aXb TIL that Howard Hughes endowed $156 million to a gas-station owner for finding him on the side of the road and giving him a ride to Las Vegas.
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b9WW0 TIL Towards the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. started to reconsider his fight for Integration and even said "I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house"