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TIL: Costa Rica abolished their military in 1948 and hasn't had a standing army since

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Z8ZGY TIL Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a different beach every day for 27years.
R7Gyl TIL That excessive caffeine ingestion leads to symptoms that overlap with those of many psychiatric disorders. In psychiatric in-patients, caffeine has been found to increase anxiety, hostility and psychotic symptoms.
JYGyj TIL John von Newmann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age six and learned calculus by age eight. He developed the computer architecture that virtually all computing devices use today. He became a US strategic adviser and his game theory led to the MAD doctrine.
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xV007 TIL a painting found of Judith Slaying Holofnes was originally attributed to Caravaggio but later determined to be by Artimisia Gentileschi. The blood was depicted travelling in a parabolic arc, a concept introduced by Galileo in 1608 that wouldn't have been known when Caravaggio painted his in 1599