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TIL that 3-5 cups of coffee a day is associated with the lowest overall cardiovascular disease risk after controlling for other factors

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wQmE TIL producers of Animal House offered Donald Sutherland a fee of either 2% of the film’s gross or $35,000. Sutherland had little faith in the movie so he took the $35,000 resulting in a loss of $2.8 million, or upward of $10 million after inflation.
yQDOV TIL that the final catalyst of the Thirty Years' War was when two Catholic Counts and their secretary were thrown out of the window ("defenstrated") by the Protestant Count Thurn in Prague. They survived the 3 story (21 m) fall, and the secretary was later given the title of "Baron of Highfall"
X07NP TIL that Nelvana did dubbed all 70 episodes of Cardcaptors in Canada and Australia and that Kids WB was the one that cut it down to 39 episodes in the US.
d8Y9 TIL The highly classified Task Force Black removed or killed 3,500 insurgents from the streets of Baghdad, reducing bombings from 150 per month to about 2 per month.
Y7k0B TIL that in 2001, during the canonization process of Mother Teresa, the Catholic Church called upon prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens to formally challenge her sainthood before them.