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TIL that British researchers in 1996 found that the best nap was a short one taken just after intaking caffeine.

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4Vg TIL Western Australia passed a referendum in 1933 to secede from Australia, only to be denied by the British Government.
wm9Y TIL eyes of Arctic reindeer change color through the seasons from gold to blue
699K7 TIL in 2009, artist Jess Dobkin performed “It’s Not Easy Being Green” while dressed as Kermit the Frog, and getting fisted by someone dressed as Jim Henson
4bxR TIL that green olives are the same as black olives, but green olives are picked before ripening and black olives are picked while ripe
J1gk TIL that Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist from the 1800’s, kept a loaded gun in his laboratory while working on a vaccine for rabies; if he or one of his lab assistants got infected, they were to be shot in the head.