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TIL Caffenism is a state of intoxication from consuming too much caffeine. Extreme symptoms are muscle twitching, cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility, and loss of appetite.

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PYQ4J TIL the classic Peanuts football gag ended on October 24, 1999. In the final strip, Rerun held the football instead of Lucy and whether or not Charlie Brown kicked the football was never revealed.
n5wb TIL that the Simpsons were doing Butterfinger commercials a year before the show started, and that Milhouse originated in the second commercial.
4v5 TIL that Switzerland once accidentally invaded Lichtenstein
jNeWQ TIL about Sue Finley, who at 80 is the longest-serving female employee at NASA. She has had a role in nearly every US unmanned space probe, and some missions of other nations.
0dpEy TIL about Ken Warby, the fastest man on water. He set the speed record in his homemade, wood boat in 1978 at 317.6mph (551.1 km/h), a record that still stands today.