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TIL Caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy, it blocks the receptors in your brain that make you feel tired.

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Lkvkd TIL: When given colored construction paper, wasps build rainbow colored nests
N7A8E TIL the Shag Rocks were charted by William Scoresby in 1927. They are inhabited mainly by South Georgia shags, a subspecies of the imperial shag.
WXrX TIL voice actress Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” at age 13, and again at age 64 for “Kingdom Hearts”
XvyQ TIL that school officials used a 15 year old as bait to catch another student suspected of sexual abuse, and still denies responsibility for her being raped because of it.
M7KWb TIL that in 1868 the first non-electric gas-lit traffic light was installed in London outside the Houses of Parliament to control the traffic in adjacent streets. Its operational life was brief: it exploded a month later as a result of a leak injuring the policeman operating the traffic light.