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TIL Teddy Roosevelt Drank a Gallon of Coffee a day. He also allegedly came up with the Maxwell House slogan, “Good to the Last Drop””, as well.

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O1YL TIL once the last flight before winter has left the South Pole research base, leaving the ~50 crew that will stay all through the ever-dark polar winter, the remaining crew have a tradition where they watch The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) back to back.
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grOY9 TIL the tallest building in Vermont is 11 stories
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X0nXP TIL Morrissey had security search his fans for meat products on the way into one of his gigs in 2011. Morrissey who is vegetarian, had previously stopped a gig because someone was throwing sausages at him