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

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oB6jL TIL: Plants have to have ‘plant passports’ stamped on the side of their pots to travel overseas
1aBQ7 TIL two surfers Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze started the 4ocean movement and now has 27 operations around the world and has collected 4 million pounds of trash since 2017.
R5071 TIL that bugs called Eyelash mites live on our eyelashes, feeding on dead skin and oil and acting as a cleaner for our bodies
Gnw4 TIL that Thanksgiving was made a national holiday because one woman obsessively campaigned to make it so until eventually President Lincoln agreed. The same woman also wrote “Mary had a little lamb” and lobbied for the creation of the Bunker Hill memorial.
nepp7 TIL of Joy Milne, a “super-smeller” who found she could smell a unique odor on people with Parkinson's disease years before the onset of symptoms. Scientists then isolated biomarkers in sebum (oily substance from face/back) of Parkinson’s patients, paving the way to earlier detection/treatment.