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TIL Coffee drinkers are 53 percent less likely to commit suicide, thought to be correlated to the dopamine released while coffee drinking.

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j6p9E TIL Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October. Their first Thanksgiving was in 1578, whereas the US's was 43 years later in 1621
PK5e TIL it is illegal for US citizens and corporations to boycott Israel.
4XJ96 TIL that flatfish (turbot, sole, halibut, etc) start off round but then morph into flat bodies, with their eye coming around to the other side of their head. (Video of this linked.)
dDmZj TIL My Great Grandmother was a Cherokee. Her father was Catawba. I found this video of their tribes.
BObe TIL there is a whiskey boom in the state of Washington. Coupled with its more lax distilling laws, WA is very similar to Scotland with its wet, temperate climate and arable coastal locations that make for an ideal place to grow barley for whiskey.