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TIL cocaine users caused McDonald's to take away their coffee spoons

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K0eQ TIL That some women can have orgasms every 30 seconds for 6 to 8 hours a day. (Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome)
oRrmK TIL NASA has an "Innovative Advanced Concepts" (NIAC) group that focuses on high risk/high reward technology projects where the general public can submit ideas to specific challenges for cash prizes (ie Deep Space Food Challenge for $1,000,000 total)
9Yn1X TIL The University of New Hampshire has a gallery on Betty and Barney Hill, known internationally for reporting they had been abducted by aliens in 1961. The exhibit features aliens depicted in a sculpture and drawings, the dress Betty wore, notebooks, photographs, and documents about the abduction
R5lJj TIL Tablecloths were designed to be used as one big, communal napkin during the Renaissance period. When they were first invented, guests were meant to wipe off their hands and faces on a tablecloth after a messy dinner party.
wLAnM TIL that Benjamin Franklin, before becoming one of the chief architects of the U.S Constitution and a Founding Father, was staunch British loyalist, even going so far as to state, "I look on the colonies as so many counties gained to Great Britain."