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TIL drinking coffee and then taking a short nap reduces sleepiness more than just drinking coffee or just napping.

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Mna TIL that the planet PSRJ1719-1438B used to be a star, and is now made up entirely of diamond.
69oQ8 TIL Jim Davis' (aka the creator of the Garfield comic strip) first wife was allergic to cats
QJXxa TIL Florida passed a bill in1967 which would allow Disney to build their own nuclear power plant at Disney World, that law still stands
ep6oJ TIL that before he was an actor, Peter Dinklage was in a punk-funk-rap group called Whizzy. While playing at the famed CBGB nightclub, he was accidentally kneed in the face so hard that he started bleeding on stage and now has a scar running from his neck to his eyebrow.
ZAQ TIL that the song “Why can’t we be Friends?” was played in space when Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts joined together in 1975 for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.