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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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1DoX TIL when Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,“I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves.”
PYaGG TIL straight plastic bag bans implemented in Chicago and Hawaii resulted in many stores just upping the thickness of their plastic bags to 2.25 mils to cross the threshold that separates “single-use” plastic from “reusable” plastic bags under many bag laws.
j6PVn TIL Gerry Rafferty, famous for the song Baker Street and stuck in the middle with you with Steelers Wheel, was once in a folk-pop duo with famous Scottish comedian Billy Connolly .
d89d7 TIL Churches in Europe once employed “dog whippers” who would whip unruly dogs on church grounds during services. They also popped sleepy parishioners on the head in England.
Zr4o TIL That Robert Ripley of Ripley’s Believe it or Not would not call his oddity cast members “freaks”. And would even threaten to fire staff if they used the term “freak.”