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TIL that what we call black tea in english is actually called red tea (红茶 hóngchá) in China. The term black tea (黑茶 hēichá) is actually used to describe a fermented tea called Pu'er

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dK99 TIL that when faced with long-range rockets from Nazi Germany, the British used their double agents to make the Nazis think the missiles were falling short. The Nazis would hit areas miles over their targets for much of 1944.
16DA7 TIL that in the past, many turkish bars hired people to carry drunk people in a basket
rYLy TIL there are places in Australia called Tittybong, Bacon Bay and Milkshake Hills.
D1wOr TIL about David Bowie’s 1983 interview with Mark Goodman where he calls out the lack of black artists featured on MTV
WKeX TIL Alexander Hamilton and James Madison both claimed to have written numbers 49-58 and 62-63 of the Federalist Papers. In 1964, a computer analysis of the text revealed that Madison was indeed the author of all 12 of those essays, despite Hamilton’s claim to the contrary.