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TIL Air Conditioning was invented in 1881 in an effort to cool the mortally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield

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mGOp TIL “Huh” is the universal word, say linguists. “Huh” is not innate (other primates don’t say it), but the circumstances of its use (needing to quickly and briefly prompt another speaker to repeat herself) are universal, so languages that share no commonalities still converged on this word.
Dbap TIL only some people can physical chills from listening to music, and those people generally have the personality trait of being ‘open to experience’
oROkR Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
69okY TIL there was a 1988 six-episode anime adaptation of Starship Troopers.
X01gj TIL: Caffeine is a banned substance by the NCAA. A urinary caffeine concentration exceeding 15 micrograms per milliliter (corresponding to ingesting about 500 milligrams, roughly 6 to 8 cups of brewed coffee, two to three hours before competition) results in a positive drug test.