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TIL caffeine enhances physical performance, endurance, muscle strength and power

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9YOJM TIL that the pre-cursor to female smart assistants - Siri, Alexa, etc - was a real telephone switchboard operator called Emma Nutt. Nutt was the first female telephone operator, and her success marked the start of the use of the female voice as an entry-point to accessing technology and information.
pQQQ TIL that the last Shuttle flight STS-134 was delayed after an engineer committed suicide by throwing himself off the launch pad.
GYWN TIL Rabbits’ hind legs are so strong that if they are not restrained properly, the rabbit can break its own back by kicking too hard
lRGB TIL there is an area in China with so many Africans that it has the nickname Chocolate City
mxOMR TIL about "Grain entrapment", when a person becomes submerged in grain and gets stuck, often suffocating beneath the corn.