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TIL that being optimistic lower your chance of suffering from sleep disorders and insomnia

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0w4oL TIL: Only one commercial entity in America can import Coco Leaves with approval from the DEA, The Stepan Company, after extracting the Cocaine, the leaves are then shipped to Coca Cola to be used as an ingredient in the secret recipe thus making an imitation recipe near impossible.
OLr6 TIL there was a man-made mouse utopia called Universe 25. It started with 4 males and 4 females. The colony peaked at 2200 and from there declined to extinction. Once a tipping point was reached, the mice lost instinctual behaviors. Scientists extrapolate this model to humans on earth.
E18Dx TIL: 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY was released before we landed on the moon, and even before the first color pictures of Earth even existed.
vw5B TIL the US spent $20 million on a cat equipped to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War but it immediately got hit by a taxi
M771K TIL: The first book featuring a ship going into outer space and meeting aliens was written in the 2nd century AD