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TIL that caffeine has a half life of 5.7 hours on average. So even if you only drink coffee in the morning, it'll still be in your system when you go to bed.

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R74o4 TIL The Vagabonds Act (1547) stated "if anyone refuses to work, he shall be condemned as a slave to the person who has denounced him as an idler." The owner could then force the new slave to do any work "no matter how vile." If the slave escaped three times, you could execute them.
wLJOJ TIL 1/3 of the Filipino population have latent tuberculosis (TB) infection, and because of that inactivity, are not contagious.
WOao TIL the name “Yosemite” means “They are killers” in Southern Sierra Miwok, a Utian language. The word was originally used for describing the people who lived in the region.
KyOQ TIL of the Little Dodo bird, a smaller relative of the extinct Dodo, which is still alive today, but once again being pushed to the brink of extinction
x6VQg TIL Cecil Jacobson, a fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them, was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology in 1992, “for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.”