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TIL - Chinese Restaurant Syndrome actually originated from a letter by a Chinese physician named Kwok that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968, describing certain symptoms he had experienced after eating Chinese food.

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goAD TIL Garfield (the comic strip) was never supposed to be funny. It was crafted to fit a marketing niche.
yQwEJ TIL in 1996 a study was conducted that determined approx. 79% of all paper currency in the US had cocaine residue on it.
gA6L TIL there are redwoods that suffer from a type of albinism due to a lack of clorophyll. There are only around 60 of these redwoods in the world and due to their rarity are all kept in top secret locations.
9YjvQ TIL Akira Haraguchi, who in 2006 recited 100,000 digits of pi from memory at a public event near Tokyo. It took him 16hrs 30mins.
rRJ5o TIL in 1923 Illinois officially passed legislation replacing English with 'American' as their official language, making it the only state in the Union where people legally 'speak American'