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TIL that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a mini-opera about coffee addiction

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DQvRV TIL that interpretations of the film The Shining as referencing treatment of Native Americans, were made as early as 1987 in an essay in The Washington Post.
b9b4p TIL that Cayman Island is just 260 Sq. Km (approx 16 km*16 km) with a population of nearly 65,000 has nearly 100,000 registered companies with a ratio of 1.5 companies per person. Caymanians have the highest standard of living in the Caribbean. Their currency = 1.2 US $.
MevMK TIL Scarlett Johansson is currently the world's highest-paid actress since 2018. She also has no active social media accounts as she stated "she does not see the need to continuously share details of her everyday life" during an interview with Interview magazine in 2011.
pYEvG TIL elevated blood pressure reduces the perception of physical pain and social pain
79X7 TIL that Earth is only just inside the habitable zone by 1%. We very nearly too close to the sun to ever have life as we know it.