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TIL of caffeine-induced anxiety disorder where caffeine usage surpassing 200 mg has been shown to increase the likelihood for anxiety and panic attacks.

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kOPAe TIL Sir Ian McKellen broke down on the set of the Hobbit, announcing “This is not why I became an actor.”, due to filming the entire movie alone with the dwarves edited in afterwards.
xRR0 TIL of Deborah Sampson who disguised herself as a man to fight in the U.S. Revolutionary War, served in an elite Light Infantry unit and was wounded in battle. After her secret was discovered, she was honorably discharged, but had to fight to receive her veteran’s pension.
VB7vk TIL that until the late nineteenth century, approximately half of all humans born died from infections before the age of fifteen.
k8We TIL there are now more Americans in jail, 6 million, than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”
9DmM TIL Japan Airlines operates an exhibition of the 1985 plane crash, displaying passengers’ farewell notes, their personal belongings and 41 pieces of wreckage, as a safety lesson for its employees.