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Jul 01, 2020

TIL: A Swedish king, Gustav III, believed coffee was so bad for you that he once set up a human experiment to prove it. He ‘forced’ a prisoner to drink coffee 3 times a day, believing it would kill him in a matter of weeks. The prisoner outlived the king and the doctors appointed to oversee him.

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Apr 28, 2020

Today I learned scientists have been able to track the history of the AIDS virus. Through research they believe 'patient zero' lived Cameroon in Africa, and contracted the disease around 1908, after hunting a chimp and being infected with SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus)

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Apr 24, 2020

TIL Kennedy took "sole responsibility" for the Bay of Pigs Invasion and it's subsequent failure.

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Dec 21, 2019

TIL when Facebook changed the report category "Embarassing" to "It's embarassing", it increased the report percentage from 50% to 80%

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Dec 01, 2019

TIL Thanks to skyrocketing real estate prices, Manhattan gas stations are worth much more than the money the owner can make selling gas.

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Oct 02, 2019

TIL of Benjamin Ferencz. A Transylvanian-born 99 year old lawyer who was chief prosecutor in the Einzatzgruppen trial in Nuremberg. In 2016 he donated $1m to the Washington Holocaust Museum. Not only does he still continue to work to this day, but he does 125 push ups every morning

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Aug 10, 2019

TIL 100% orange juice that you buy in the grocery store is highly processed and up to a year old before it’s purchased by the consumer

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Jul 29, 2019

TIL that Turkey Vultures have been & sometimes are still used to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines; the odor that gas companies add to gas (so we can detect it since it's odorless) is the same as rotting flesh, which leads the vultures to congregate in the sky in the area of the leak.

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