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TIL In the late 1600s, London coffeehouses were seen as areas of political unrest because they were popular with political men and writers. The Women's Petition claimed coffee drinking was an intellectual, effeminate pastime which made their husbands impotent.

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QJBGp TIL an animation studio in South Korea produced many famous American animated shows, including the first two seasons of The Simpsons exclusively, as well as parts of X-Men, Arthur, Animaniacs, Batman, and The Land Before Time
ox9W TIL there are 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive on Earth at any given time. That is nearly 1.5 Billion insects for every human being.
KwW9 TIL that in 1966 two men climbed up a hill in Brazil, placed lead masks over their faces, and apparently killed themselves for unexplained reasons. The only clue left behind was a note that read, “16:30 be at agreed place, 18:30 swallow capsules, after effect protect metals wait for mask signal.”
DQKlr TIL Eddie Gaedel was the smallest baseball player to appear in an MLB game (standing 3 feet 7 inches tall, and weighing 60 lbs). While wearing jersey number "1/8", he walked on 4 straight balls in his only plate appearance.
w4g1 TIL in 1907 Lawrence Luellen, a Boston lawyer, was concerned about the spread of germs due to people sharing glasses and dippers in public drinking spaces. He invented the first paper cup, dubbed the Klean Cup. 5 years later he renamed it after a popular line of toys: Dixie Dolls. Thus, Dixie Cups.