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TIL that 3-5 cups of coffee a day is associated with the lowest overall cardiovascular disease risk after controlling for other factors

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ZPNB TIL of Wolfgang Beltracchi, the most successful art forger of all time, who is famous not for making recreations of famous paintings, but for making originals in the style of famous artists, believable enough that hundreds of his works are on display in museums across the world.
0dvk5 TIL about Hessy Levinsons Taft, a German Jew whose baby photo was used by Nazis to represent the ideal Aryan baby.
ZDp4 TIL that in 2002 a fire broke out at a girls school in Saudi Arabia and the religious police prevented girls from escaping because rescuers would be sexually enticed by the ‘improperly covered’ girls. 16 died.
oQjL TIL that a New Orleans restaurant has been owned by the same family since 1840. Antoine’s, famous for Oyster Rockefeller and Baked Alaska, has had five generations of the family run it, and a sixth is preparing to take over. It is the US’s oldest continuously family-run restaurant.
vMjj TIL the Aryan Brotherhood makes up only 0.1% of the U.S. federal prison population but is responsible for 30% of its murders.