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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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Z8lDB TIL about an event known as an "October Surprise." An October Surprise is a news event deliberately timed just before a US election in order to influence the outcome of that election.
4Xo65 TIL that Tug of War was an Olympic sport. It was dropped after the Antwerp games in 1920 after a number of controversies.
oj18 TIL in 1993 Egyptologists sent a small rover through one of the Air Shafts of the Great Pyramid. The rover came in contact with a stone door with two copper handles attached. To this day, the door has not been opened and now one knows where it leads
X0a7j TIL when researchers removed eyebrows from pictures of familiar faces, it reduced the chances of recognition substantially, and significantly more than removing the eyes themselves.
DQo7v TIL Jennifer Ringley was the first camgirl on the Internet. She was also the first "lifecaster" who popularized live streaming before Justin Kan became famous with justin.tv (he later co-founded Twitch).