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TIL cigarette smoking causes certain drugs to be metabolized faster, including caffeine. Heavy smokers need to drink up to 4 times as much caffeine to have the same effect as a non-smoker.

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Egdgd TIL that in 1984, Sweden introduced a 0.5% tax on financial transactions. 50% of traders in Stockholm moved to London by 1990. The reduction in market activity resulted in the money raised from the tax being minimal, and actually reduced overall tax revenue due to reductions in capital gains tax.
W7YRd TIL there is a 109° F difference between the record high and record low for the month of February in Wichita, Kansas
4NkJ TIL - An entire village must sink their canoes when not in use, after local orangutans learned how to steal them and paddle them down the river.
lnQ5 TIL in 1761, 60 slaves survived a shipwreck and lived on a 200 acre island 300 miles form land for 15 years
oBAB7 TIL: From 1919 to 1969, college home economics programs in the US would rent babies from orphanages for young women to practice mothering