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TIL The Addams Family originally began as a New Yorker cartoon

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worVM TIL Alvin, the submarine that discovered the Titanic, was built by General Mills, the consumer foods producer, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
v1ZE4 TIL that people can die from simply giving up on life. Senior research John Leach said “give-up-itis” can kill in just three weeks without help.
lwxG TIL James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the helical structure of DNA, believes that stupidity is a disease and stupid people should be “cured”
BrEYd TIL that some non-redheaded men have red beards because they have one copy of the MC1R gene. Two copies would make them fully redheads
VMWLp TIL that chocolate doesn’t contain caffeine, instead it contains theobromine, which is structurally but not effectively similar