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TIL that before Pope Clement VIII's endorsement of coffee, coffee was considered satanic by many people

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VZRG TIL the five largest meat companies in the US dumped 48,229,609 pounds of toxic pollutants into waterways in 2014 according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
X01E8 TIL that in response to fans demanding the show Metalpocalipse be continued, Adult Swim set up a live stream of the a fax machine printing the petition to bring back the show… only for the faxes to be dropped straight into a trash bin.
KYQK6 TIL that on April 5, 1933, Roosevelt ordered all gold coins and gold certificates in denominations of more than $100 turned in for other money. It required all persons to deliver all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve by May 1 for the set price of $20.