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TIL Jeff Bezos' biological father was a unicycle hockey player called Ted Jorgensen and the president of the world's first unicycle hockey club.

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R57Oj TIL that during the East German coffee crisis in the 1970s, care packages from the West ended up providing an estimated 25% of all coffee in East Germany. Demand for the fruit bread which was the traditional return gift was so high a minister proposed a ban on gifting it.
Vwbk TIL that in 1771, a Japanese woman known only as Aochababa (green tea hag) was dissected to compare Chinese anatomical knowledge to the Dutch. The Japanese were astonished to see that the Dutch were correct, and wrote up their findings in a 4 volume text, overturning centuries of Chinese medicine.
xVdXD TIL that Carl Newton Mahan was only 6-years-old when he shot and killed 8-year-old Cecil Van Hoose with a shotgun. He was convicted of manslaughter but his sentence was reversed because of his age. He remained free until his death at 35-years-old.
wJJ7 TIL scientists discovered a female boa constrictor which could reproduce asexually. She produced two large litters of female babies, but unlike normal female boa constrictors these babies had two W chromosomes, instead of one Z and one W chromosome
ADANg TIL that in 1483 sir Henry Wyatt, an English knight, was imprisoned and left with no food. He would have starved to death, if it had not been for a cat he made friends with. That cat brought him pigeons to eat every day, and so he survived for two years before he was freed by his companions in 1485.