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TIL hot drinks can help cool you down

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yLZM TIL the ATF set up a sting operation during which they hired and then arrested a mentally retarded man, allowed armed felons to leave the store, arrested four of the wrong people, paid such high prices for guns that people sold them to the agents at a profit, and eventually got burglarized.
4XlNg TIL Canada's broadcasting regular forbids false and misleading news over Canadian airwaves
wo5X6 TIL of "the Bat man", a married woman's lover kept in her attic for 10 years.
8a4kb TIL, because of the buzz that resulted from drinking it, in the southeastern U.S., "dope" became a common term for Coca-Cola, and "dope-wagons" were the trucks that transported the beverage.
Lk4Wd TIL Nostradamus' predictions were based on past events; he simply believed history would repeat itself. He would pick historical events at random, then use astrological calculations to figure out when they'd happen again. Also, he wrote a cookbook.