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697nX TIL cigarette smoking causes certain drugs to be metabolized faster, including caffeine. Heavy smokers need to drink up to 4 times as much caffeine to have the same effect as a non-smoker.
r18e TIL in 1994, a man walked into a Washington middle school and killed his former teacher. 11 years later, the killer won $250,000 from the school district after it was revealed that the teacher sexually abused him.
NXQLM TIL Chocolate sheet cakes and mixes, and the nominally-chocolate dark wafers in Oreos, taste so different than other common chocolate foods because they use black cocoa. Black cocoa is created by a different process than natural or Dutch-processed cocoa, which results in a very unique taste.
7rokL TIL Keanu Reeves was initially offered Val Kilmer's role in the 1995 film Heat. He turned it down to play Hamlet in a 789 seat theatre in Manitoba.
16gK8 TIL, in 1998 it took several days to bring down a rogue 25-story tall Canadian weather balloon even after two F-16s fired more than 1,000 rounds of cannon shells into it. The balloon had severe impact on trans-Atlantic air traffic as airliners were forced to divert from their projected flight paths