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TIL learned that “Nitro Cold Brew” is just Cold Brew coffee infused with nitrogen gas, and the name has nothing to do with the amount of Caffeine the coffee contains.

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QJ80e TIL a chemical compound was found to make human "invisible" to mosquitoes, instead of repelling them
gM1lW TIL: People like Forrest Gump were real. In the Vietnam War, a program under LBJ, and McNamara swept through the ghettos of America looking for low IQ people to induct into the Armed Forces; in total 354000 people. Termed "McNamara's Morons" they were KIA at 3x the rate of other soldiers
R7bK9 TIL in 532 AD 30,000 rioters were killed and half of Constantinople was destroyed in the Nika Riots, over a conflict with chariot racing.
neNrP TIL: Killer Whale is a mistranslation of Whale-Killer - Orcas are part of the dolphin family and hunt whales
vBYL TIL that Ice-T came out with a song called “99 problems” 11 years before Jay-Z did, and they both have the same hook