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TIL that coffee is believed to have been discovered by a shepherd when he saw his sheep becomes more active when eating coffee plants

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OG0EL TIL Duplex stainless steel can undergo 475°C embrittlement that causes a loss of plasticity when it is heated between 250°C and 550°C.
jDKn TIL during the 1964 Presidential election Fact magazine polled psychiatrists about the mental competence of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater successfully sued and as a result the psychiatric community created the Goldwater rule to prevent them from diagnosing people they haven’t personally examined
R7r57 TIL of Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for the story of a heroin-addicted four-year old. It was later discovered that the entire story was fabricated, and the award was rescinded.
pBVG TIL that as a Jew, Jesus would have had short hair, but artists eventually gave him long hair to make him seem more god-like, in the image of the Roman gods Jupiter and Neptune
69BJ8 TIL about General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who supported democracy, human rights, legal limits on the CCP, and genuine efforts to repair Japanese relations. His death was one of the causes of the Tiananmen Square protests and was only rehabilitated by the party in 2015