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

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oBebL TIL Paul McCartney wrote Paperback Writer when one of his aunts asked him to write "a single that wasn't about love". When he saw Ringo Starr reading a book, he decided that the single would be about a book.
axXL TIL that the first official “Catholic Church” recorded same sex marriage was in Spain on April 16, 1061 and the church NEVER annulled it…
VB7ZQ TIL Spy Kids is on the National Film Registry, being added in 2024
nWre9 TIL - Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe caused their currency to be abandoned as worthless in favour of the dollar. Zimbabwe's peak month of inflation was estimated at 79.6 billion percent month-on-month, 89.7 sextillion percent year-on-year in mid-November 2008
DppP TIL that a baby red octopus snuck into a tank at Monterey Bay Aquarium while it was the size of a fingernail. It stayed alive by eating local residents, and wasn’t discovered until it had grown to the size of a fist.