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TIL psychiatrists often overlook a patient’s caffeine intake habits during evaluations, despite its overuse being linked to worsening anxiety, disrupting sleep, and mimicking many common symptoms of psychosis.

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D18pJ TIL that bumblebees can attain ground speeds up to 15 metres per second (54 km/h or 33.55 miles/h) while foraging.
knJ4 TIL The release of Halo 2 was delayed because one of the developers hid a picture of his butt within the game.
m11lo TIL Frank Dixon, author of the Hardy Boys books and Carolyn Keene author of the Nancy Drew Series don't exist. They are actually pseudonyms for a variety of writers who wrote those stories
rxWe TIL that in 1874 a satirical article was published claiming that a women was impregnated by a bullet that plunged through the testicle of a soldier. The story persisted as a medical fact as late as 1959
jN6ZX TIL that the record for passengers on a ship was set in WW2 by the Queen Mary: 16,082. The ocean liner was so fast it often sailed without escort and could outrun both submarines and torpedoes