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TIL of the “Coffee Cantata”, a comic opera by J.S. Bach about a young woman who drank absurd amounts of coffee to annoy her father, who wouldn’t let her marry

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7r5VO TIL J Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the A-bomb, resigned as leader of Los Alamos. The program had shifted focus to thermonuclear weapons, and Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the hydrogen bomb and similar weapons on the grounds that they were more destructive than mankind could responsibly control.
aDwA TIL The clitoris is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. It has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis.
O1O1 TIL it was cheaper to hire an Irishman than a donkey in the Pennsylvania coal mining days of the 1800s. That’s where the insult Donkey to the Irish came from
y0jw TIL Eddie Van Halen played the iconic guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s Beat It. Also it was a favor and free of charge
VB7BG TIL that Mammoth Cave was used as the site of an experimental hospital to treat tuberculosis. 16 patients lived in darkness in buildings constructed underground. 5 patients died and the experiment was ended within 5 months.