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TIL that the idea that caffeine makes you dehydrated is largely a myth

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R71ra TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory might have its origins in a 1952 Ray Bradbury short story. In it, a time-traveler travels back 66 million years where he accidentally crushes a butterfly, resulting in an altered timeline observed upon his return.
05R5 TIL that under Hitler, wage-earners’ health care became unlimited, and maternity leave was extended to twelve fully paid weeks with job protection.
8loK TIL when Jimmy Stewart made It’s a Wonderful Life he hadn’t made a movie in five years. He was planning on going into aviation if he couldn’t restart his film career.
em7n TIL The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous believed LSD could be used to cure alcoholics and credited the drug with helping his own recovery from often debilitating depression.
N7weE TIL the Reagan Administration laughed about the AIDS epidemic during three separate press conferences