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TIL Pope Clement VIII loved coffee: he supposedly tasted the "Muslim drink" [coffee] at the behest of his priests, who wanted him to ban it. "Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious, that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it..."

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4kn8w TIL China uses cloud seeding for weather manipulation to create everything from blue skies during the 2008 Olympic games to rain intense during droughts.
BWrd TIL That musicians have the legal right to carry their instrument on board a plane without an additional baggage charge. (Pages 74-75)
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