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

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xVjnB TIL that males who have married into the British royal family can never become King: they only have the opportunity of being Prince consort (however, females who marry in have the opportunity of becoming Queen).
E1y7W TIL that fighting words, or "words which by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace", are not protected under the first amendment.
x6k8w TIL there is a town in Southern Utah called Mexican Hat. The name comes from a nearby rock formation that looks like a sombrero.
PYE8V TIL although deaf schizophrenics who have never heard do report “hearing voices”, they are not referring to true auditory hallucinations. Instead, communication comes via the mind’s eye: visual hallucinations of moving lips, or disembodied hands and arms making sign language movements.
94RG TIL a Canadian man chugged 8 beers and swam across the Detroit river just to prove his friends wrong. Upon being apprehended when swimming back to the Canadian side having completed the task, he apologized.