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TIL That excessive caffeine ingestion leads to symptoms that overlap with those of many psychiatric disorders. In psychiatric in-patients, caffeine has been found to increase anxiety, hostility and psychotic symptoms.

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0d5gN TIL about the coco de mer tree, where the male tree has flowers that look like human male genitals and the seed has "the shape and size of a woman's disembodied buttocks on one side, and a woman's belly and thighs on the other side."
AkMa TIL elephants are the only mammal other than humans which have chins.
D1Qgv TIL It takes thousands of years for light to escape the sun, then 8.3 minutes to reach earth. The sunlight we see is thousands of years old.
Y7Ord TIL Boeing doesn't build the fuselages for their 737 & 787
J1bD1 TIL that horses, ships, and gold, are notably absent in the ash of Pompeii and Herculaneum, pointing out that many people did manage to escape the Mt. Vesuvius eruption. Analysis of Roman inscriptions in surrounding towns found that they simply rebuilt their lives in nearby towns like Ostia.