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TIL There is a tape of the kool aid mass suicide at jonestown

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QJvkk Today I learned there's a term for diarrhea after high intensity running "Runners Trots"
6ERZJ TIL the earliest of several attempts to ban coffee took place in Mecca 1511 CE. Its effects on the mind were decided to be as intoxicating as alcoholic drinks, and therefore was banned on religious grounds. It was overturned later as coffee has been shown to sharpen instead of dull the senses.
awP8J TIL: The first Hannibal Lecter movie was not The Silence of the Lambs. But a film called Manhunter from 1986. Though they renamed Lecter to Lecktor.
Wb4Y TIL When wolves howl together, they harmonize rather than sing on one note to give the illusion of greater numbers.
Eyr0 TIL Saffron, the worlds most expensive spice, has also been touted as an anti-carcinogen and a treatment of clinical depression