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TIL A 19 year old college student died after overdosing on caffeine, this lead the FDA to confirm that caffeine can be lethal.

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oJkK TIL Blockbuster turned down a chance to purchase Netflix for $50 million in 2000.
jo6R TIL that the amount of energy consumed by U.S. homes for air conditioning has doubled in the past 12 years and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of our electricity use.
jNrVR TIL that one of the most complex Chinese characters, requiring 58 strokes in its traditional form, represents the syllable "biáng", used in the name for a type of noodles. It is so complex that it is missing from most modern dictionaries and is not encoded in Unicode.
xAX1 TIL Nestle’s enormous California (water) bottling plant is on an Indian reservation so they don’t have to adhere to government water restrictions during droughts or report on how much water they’re actually using.
Vyxm TIL Queen Elizabeth has a Big Mouth Billy Bass that she keeps at the Royal Family summer home