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TIL a systematic review of 92 fatal cases with caffeine recognized as the only cause of death concluded that caffeine intoxication occurs more frequently in athletes, infants, and psychiatric patients.

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R5DG9 TIL in 2008, Playboy ran a nationwide search for a "Girls of the Olive Garden" pictorial. The mag already featured shoots for “Girls of McDonalds," “Women of Wal-Mart” and “Women of Home Depot.”
yQwZa TIL that in 2012 F1 team Lotus agreed to pay Kimi Raikkonen around 50,000 euros for every point he scores in two years. Kimi ended up scoring 390 points in those two years resulting in 19.4 million euros bonus (higher than his salary), which almost ended up bankrupting Lotus.
MgJK TIL, that psychologist Dr. John Gottman, created the magic ratio of 5:1. That a relationship is likely to be stable if there are five times as many positive interactions between partners as there are negative.
W76K8 TIL that elements of the ancient Mesopotamian religion (first formed in the 6th millennium BC) may have survived until the early 20th century. The Shamsīyah, a sect of sun-worshippers, persisted in southeastern Turkey (sometimes outwardly adopting Christian customs) until the early 1900s.
VMKpp TIL Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for liquor. Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s as they had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so they developed their own.