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TIL Halloween mask sales are an accurate indicator of who will win the presidential election.

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Agyw TIL There exists an opposite condition to paranoia, pronoia is the delusion that a massive conspiracy exists to aid you.
vPNaR TIL that, when coffee arrived from Arabia to Europe, it boosted the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. In the early days, the Royal Society of London used to meet in a coffee shop, not in a pub.
GAmE TIL that the two main characters, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo from HBO’s Rome were actually based on real Roman centurions mentioned in Julius Caesar’s recount of the Gallic Wars and are the only two soldiers he identifies by name.
mxEQM TIL that in 1787, two days before they signed off on the Constitution, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention partied at a tavern, where they drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch.
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