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TIL drinking coffee is correlated with reduced mortality rates

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XE19D TIL that Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan
DdZY TIL In 1912 three men set out to recover emperor penguin eggs from Antarctica. It was so cold one man’s teeth chattered so violently that they shattered. When he returned to the UK the National History Museum refused to accept the eggs.
nWEWB TIL that ceiling fans have a winter and summer mode.
mxM TIL studies have shown that the achievement gap between blacks and whites on many standardized tests disappears when the subjects are told that the tests do not measure intelligence or IQ.
wLrZ8 TIL Nils Bejerot, the scientist who coined the term 'Stockholm Syndrome', never interviewed any of the women who were hostages from the bank robbery.