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TIL that his mother was the only person that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was afraid of.

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v1g0K TIL a regular cup of coffee (12oz) actually has more caffeine in it than a regular shot of espresso (2oz). People tend to think of espresso as the energy drink due to consumption time: people sip on coffee but treat espresso as a shot.
d84Nr TIL that the name "white rhino" came from a miscommunication: Englishmen mistook the Dutch word "wijde" (wide) for white. White rhinos and black rhinos are actually the same color, grey.
dD4O9 TIL FDR died in the middle of posing for this portrait.
BgxLL TIL that some tribes in Ethiopia view pregnant women as "corrupted by evil sprits." When the mothers are about to go into labour, they are sent out into the wilderness alone to deliver their own child in order to purify themselves
b6ky7 TIL that about 30 scientists and staff of the Pavlovsk Experimental Station starved to death guarding the institute's edible seeds and plants during the siege of Leningrad