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TIL sedentary coffee drinkers have a 24 percent reduced risk of mortality compared with sedentary non-coffee-drinkers

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4X TIL Danny DeVito did the voice of the Lorax in five different languages, English, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian.
yD8J TIL the Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world, with an average of seven children per family.
1aNlO TIL that Nellie Bly, the author of the famous exposé Ten Days in a Mad-House, wrote 11 novels that were thought to be lost to time until they were rediscovered and published earlier this year.
VLM8 TIL That in the 2011 UK census “Jedi” was the 7th most popular religion, after Buddhism.
xJ7 TIL Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Stuka pilot, flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft.