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TIL It's illegal to engage in metal detecting in Ireland

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DQ0Mv TIL that ancient Native Americans consumed a highly caffeinated ceremonial beverage of roasted holly leaves called cacina, or black drink. Conquistadores who consumed the drink daily provide some of the earliest written accounts of caffeine addiction.
lok87 TIL about Christopher Roberts, a classical bassist, who in the 1980s hiked into Papua New Guinea's jungles with his bass and tape recorder. By doing so, he preserved a tribe's rich musical heritage & history, which were being lost because of mining & missionaries.
0wwjN Are you racking up loans on unread books? There's a word for that.
yQEpl TIL that the USS Scorpion was one of the four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, which killed 318 sailors, the deadliest year for submariners since WW2.
aw9PN TIL Hershey's does not meet the legal minimum cocoa content to be described as chocolate in Britain