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TIL that eating two medium-sized mushrooms a day reduces the risk of cancer by as much as 45%

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Z86PG TIL: Beethoven loved his coffee so much that he had his own recipe. It consisted of 60 beans. Not 59, not 61, but precisely 60. He would drop them into a cup separately and sometimes do a second recount. He also had a special apparatus for preparing it.
nW5N9 TIL of Sarah Howe, who started a massively popular Ponzi scheme in Boston in 1880, 40 years before Charles Ponzi did the same. She founded Ladies' Deposit Company, a scam that targeted working women.
GYwLN TIL Fighting is allowed in Hockey
6RK8 TIL A WWII messenger pigeon named GI Joe was awarded a bravery medal for “Making the 20 mile flight from British 10th Army HQ, in the same number of minutes … just in time to save the lives of at least 100 Allied soldiers” 31 other pigeons have been awarded for bravery during service.
D16wV TIL Bacterial Meningitis is a very serious and easy to spread illness. Survivors are usually left with life-long disabilities. A makeup vlogger had all 4 limbs amputated from it.