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TIL coffee was "Satan's drink" before Pope Clement VIII baptized it

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OGBJR TIL about The Wire of Death, a lethal electric fence created by the German military to control the Dutch-Belgian Frontier after the occupation of Belgium during the First World War. Somewhere between 2-3k people died as a result of trying to make it past the fence.
xyjo TIL Doris “Granny D” Haddock was a political activist who walked over 3000 miles around the age of 90 to advocate for a single cause: campaign finance reform.
QYgL TIL two different men disappeared in Naples, Florida one year apart. Both were last seen being arrested by the same officer. Neither of them were officially ‘booked’ as the officer told investigators he dropped them both off at gas stations. Their bodies have never been found.
epA0L TIL the world's fastest accelerating car needs just 12.3 metres to reach 100 km/h (62 mph)
0w8my TIL the Road Runner in the original Looney Tunes never left the road. Every single scene he was in always had him standing or running on a road.