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TIL about the Andean potato preservation technique: Chuño which can be stored for decades.

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b6GD0 TIL: In 1985, Symbolics, Inc, registered symbolics.com, the oldest domain on the internet. Their refusal to openly collaborate on their work to improve MIT's Lisp software led Richard Stallman to create the GNU Software Foundation.
KO494 TIL approximately 30 to 50% of East Asian are intolerant to alcohol due to a faulty version of the aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) gene. It may cause flushing on a person's face and body and other symptoms including nausea, headache and general physical discomfort after drinking alcohol.
5YXbD TIL of Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat harder credited with discovering coffee after observing his goats dancing and acting erratically upon eating the beans.
4X6oX TIL that Stanley Kubrick didn't do drugs because "When everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful."
rN6XM TIL about pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their role in driving up prescription drug prices in the United States