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TIL: Canadian JW Boucher served in the American Civil War and World War 1

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n76d TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was originally selected for the role of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho but he reluctantly did not take it as most of his fans were pre-teen girls
LBNQ TIL that coffee release CO2 for a few weeks after it is roasted, so most coffee bags have a hole to let air out so that the bags don’t explode from degassing. For K cups they allow the coffee to degas completely before packaging, thus making it stale.
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