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Europe was colder than the North Pole this week.

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6Egl7 TIL Pres. Teddy Roosevelt was given strong coffee and puffs of cigar as a child to 'help' with his asthma. As an adult his coffee drinking became legendary and he drank up to 40 cups/day. His son, Theodore Jr., remarked that his father's ideal coffee cup might be "more in the nature of a bathtub"
5RXk TIL that the Canadian province of Quebec is responsible for 75% of the world’s maple syrup production.
BrQkx TIL that the name of the band Cage The Elephant came after an incident where a mentally disturbed man approached them after a show, hugged the lead singer Matt Shultz and kept repeating the sentence 'You have to cage the elephant'.
e0aPE TIL: Brushing your teeth can significantly reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
v98K TIL that our oxygen doesn’t come from only trees. In actuality, about 70% of earth’s oxygen comes from the oceans (mainly small marine organisms called phytoplankton).