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TIL That coffee was once considered the Devil’s drink by the Catholic church… Until 1603 when Pope Clement VIII tasted it and gave it Papal approval

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5YX9 TIL a lost 1 year old boy was kept alive by feral cats.
N0ob TIL Harvard prof. Dr. Edward Clarke asserted that women should not be allowed to attend college. If young women studied too much, they would divert blood away from the uterus to the brain, rendering themselves “irritable and infertile.”
d7AK TIL a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe during World War 1, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life.
0d1rL TIL the Kool-Aid Pickle, or Koolickle, a "snack hack" associated with Tik Tok, may have actually originated from the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s
QNyBk TIL “Turkish Ice cream” is not the same as normal ice cream! It is made from Salep (a flour made from the root of the orchid) and mastic (a resin). This causes it to not melt and have a chewy texture.