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TIL that there is so much coffee in Seattle that there is a measurable caffeine content in the Pacific Northwest’s waters.

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kOxE TIL JFK’s “year-round tan” was caused by Addison’s disease.
P18mE TIL of Solomon Islander Jacob C. Vouza. During WW2, he was captured by the Japanese during the Guadalcanal Campaign, tied to a tree, bayoneted, and left for dead. He then chewed through the ropes with his teeth and made his way to American lines warning them about an impending attack. He survived.
4XAZJ TIL of Twitch Plays Pokemon. A social experiment where internet users collaborated to beat Pokemon Red in just over 16 days. Generally regarded as a classic internet moment, the event holds the world record for "the most participants on a single-player online videogame" with 1,165,140.
epv5g TIL Eleanor Roosevelt wrote an extremely popular newspaper column 6 days-a-week for 25 years which was part diary, part moral support for the disadvantaged, and part attacks on complacent Democrats.
XaYj TIL that more than 90 percent of the monarch butterfly population has vanished in the last 25 years.