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TIL caffeine boosts the effectiveness of pain relievers, like acetaminophen and ibuprofen, by 40%.

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Q4mp TIL Beards have some surprising health benefits. They can help with asthma sufferers, since beard follicles trap allergens. They also can protect skin from the sun’s radiation, keeping one looking younger underneath his man-mane.
Rama TIL that the roof of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault features a distinctive piece of art, due to a Norwegian law that requires government funded projects exceeding a certain cost to include some form of artwork.
PYKLG TIL During development of the game Wing Commander, a memory error would occur when exiting the game. They didn't have enough time to fix the error before shipping so they changed the error message to "Thanks for playing Wing Commander."
VBppm TIL that Lord Berners wrote a novel in which he imagined himself and his circle of friends as protagonists of a lesbian girls school story
yQEJJ TIL about Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a Superbowl-winning NFL player and MD who sat out the 2020 season to work in a long-term care home