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1916

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

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NXxNP TIL That Ethiopia boasts eleven monolithic churches that have been intricately carved out of mountains and linked together through tunnels. The unique design of these churches features roofs positioned at ground level, ingeniously concealing them from potential attackers when viewed from afar.
AegB TIL that in June 2009, a State Department official mailed Jack Dorsey with a request to delay scheduled maintenance of Twitter’s global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information about protests around Tehran. Twitter complied with the request.
Y795Z TIL that from 2003 to 2005, Dell sold over 11 million computers with leaky capacitors, with documents indicating that Dell was aware they were almost certain to fail. At one point, 1,000 computers that Dell delivered to the law firm that was defending it in a related lawsuit started failing.
5YNdR TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen
1RNW TIL that in 1914, at the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a manservant at the residence became deranged, setting half the house ablaze; he then went on to murder seven people with an axe as the fires burned. Among the dead were Wright’s mistress and her 2 children.