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TIL that caffeine, a stimulant, has actually been shown to calm down people with ADHD and help them concentrate.

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loyAA TIL that it is illegal to be in public with a contagious disease in the state of Washington.
8a81G TIL during the 2013 elections in The Maldives, a coconut was detained on the suspicion of 'vote-rigging' through the use of black magic. A magician was called in and established that the coconut was innocent.
x65p1 TIL that one time Britain took revenge on a huge fatberg blocking London's sewers by turning it into biodiesel. The 2017 fatberg weighed 130 tons and was over 250 meters (820 ft) long, consisting of fat, oil, grease, and trash like "flushable" wipes which hardened into a sewer blockage.
WkXxA TIL: One Third of all the Australian states are named after Queen Victoria. 2/6 Victoria & Queensland
xVBX7 TIL Microbes living within tree trunks and root systems generate massive amounts of methane (50-65 million tons of methane annually from wetland trees alone)