1. Chocolate milk was invented by an Irishman while visiting Jamaica in the 1680s. Locals mixed cocoa with water – which Hans Sloane found nauseating – so instead he mixed it with milk to make it more pleasant. He brought the recipe to England, where it was made and sold by pharmacists as medicine
2. The lyrics of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” are officially credited to his childhood friend Vincent “Tata” Ford, who ran a soup kitchen in the Jamaican ghetto where Marley grew up. Marley gave Ford credit for writing the song so that the royalty payments could keep the soup kitchen open
3. Before a concert to ease violent tensions in Jamaica, Bob Marley was shot. He went on to perform, injured, stating that, “The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?”
4. In 2008, a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this very day
5. Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated them by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse
6. The Jamaican bobsled team returned to the Winter Olympics in ’14 after failing to qualify in ’06 & ’10. The cryptocurrency Dogecoin community raised $30,000 on the teams behalf in two day because the team lacked funds
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