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TIL: In 1674, the Women's Petition Against Coffee was filed on the grounds that coffee made men impotent, gossipy & 'Frenchified'.

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NXMNE TIL that upon baseball player Ted Williams' death his body was frozen in liquid nitrogen in two different pieces
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