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TIL taking caffeine with acetaminophen triples the amount of toxins produced in the liver.

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7rR7X TIL that when Nicolaus Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, there was only mild opposition from the Church. But 73 years later Galileo's defence of the same was called heresy. He was threatened with torture and put under house arrest.
8e7Xa TIL the first woman elected to the british westminster parliament was the Irish Republican leader Countess Markievicz
8e81b TIL about Nahwa, a village in the UAE that is an enclave within a territory of Oman that is itself an enclave within the UAE. Such a territory is called a "counter-enclave".
XED9r TIL that every station on the Mexico City Metro has a unique symbol in order to help illiterate passengers navigate throughout the system.
grjJ7 TIL the codex, the precursor to modern books, emerged in the 1st century CE as a better alternative to scrolls. Inspired by Roman wax tablets, it used durable parchment folded into sheets, making it more practical and compact—one of the biggest advances in bookmaking before the printing press.