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TIL Dark roast coffee has less caffeine than light roast coffee. The coffee beans lose more caffeine the more they are roasted.

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0d8Gy TIL Garmin had to skip naming the fourth iteration of Fenix, 4, because the phonetic pronunciation combo of both ‘Fenix’ and ‘4’ together in Mandarin is basically translated as “fast rise to quick death.”
jXma TIL Jif natural peanut butter has to be labeled as “peanut butter spread” because it doesn’t meet the FDA requirements for peanut content–its “non-peanut ingredients” exceed 10 percent.
4O9R TIL a Finnish man who joined the army after Russia invaded in WW2 ended up shooting and killing 505 Soviet soldiers with a sniper and earned himself the nickname White Death. He also got shot in the face and survived. He died at the age of 96 (2002).
Y7eoZ TIL that used diapers can replace up to 8% of sand used in concrete and mortar for a small, single-story building
JGkl TIL in 2014 Italian and French jets escorted a hijacked plane because the Swiss Air Force only works during office hours.