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TIL researchers found increasing your daily coffee consumption lowers your risk of Type 2 Diabetes by 11%. Surprisingly, they also found cutting your coffee consumption by one cup can increase your Diabetes risk 17%.

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grEo4 TIL "One nation, under God" isn't a centuries-old relic, rather it was added as recently as in 1954.
EgOEo TIL about transgenerational obesogens - substances which when consumed by pregnant people, will have lifelong effects of predisposing that future child to obesity by altering adipogenesis
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BbWr TIL it’s illegal to use hormones in turkey (or other poultry and pork) so “hormone free” turkeys are not any different than a regular one