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TIL alcohol is actually a depressant. Drinking more than too much can cause some sedating effects to the human body. This can include long term and short term effects.

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MdMm TIL Thomas Jefferson kept a shetland sheep at the White House. It attacked several people, killed a small boy, and was eventually called “this abominable animal”.
R74pQ TIL that in the Peanuts cartoon the absence of adults and using a trombone to act as their voice was done to give Peanuts a unique point of view, bringing the comic down to the level of children, and not children from an adult's viewpoint.
R58RQ TIL there is a statue of George Washington in Lima, Peru, that was purchased by the Peruvian government and dedicated on July 4, 1921, to pay homage to Washington, whom Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguía called the “Great Liberator of the North.”
4VPw TIL a 15 year old kid has invented a pancreatic cancer detection technique that is 168 times faster, over 26,000 times less expensive and over 400 times more sensitive than current methods…and 100% accurate.
eb9J TIL: There is an island known as “Just Room Enough Island” that has just enough room for a tree and a house.