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TIL cancer can be passed down through genes like colon cancer

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VlWm TIL that smelling coffee or coffee beans acts as an olfactory palate cleanser. This means that when you smell something after smelling coffee, you get the full effect, and there is no nasal fatigue.
6E8bQ TIL that a man set a record for the most expensive free drink at Starbucks ever when he used a coupon to order a "mega" latte with 101 shots of espresso and 17 pumps of vanilla syrup. His drink contained nearly 7500 mg of caffeine and rang up to $83.75.
EgGnd TIL that Dick Gephardt is the only Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 1929 to have never become Speaker of the House.
KmV6 TIL in 1965, two astronauts in orbit reported: “We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit…I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit.”
PYy8E TIL Several people accused actor Kiell Smith-Bynoe of putting on blackface when he appeared in a promotional film for the BBC. He is in fact black.