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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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XElE8 TIL that [former planet] Pluto has only moved about one third of the way around its orbit since we discovered it in 1930
woDj6 TIL A24 came into being because one evening while driving on a highway to Rome, Daniel Katz, an employee in the financing division of Guggenheim Partners got an idea to challenge the old Hollywood system. The creative idea on the A24 highway to Rome became the genesis of his new film company, A24.
X0epD TIL: At 555ft, the Washington Monument was the tallest building in the world for a few years until it was surpassed by the Eiffel Tower.
Noe6 TIL of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till’s mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.
loDpK Today I learned that this stupid piece of shit air conditioner sells for 950 dollars lmaooop