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TIL that coffee fueled the Enlightenment by providing a safe alternative to contaminated water and alcohol

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Yp71G TIL that a river in New Zealand has been given legal status as a living entity and possesses the same rights as a human being.
d8ydE TIL a blue whale’s age is determined by its ear wax
kJoZd TIL there is a Columbian 1:1 remake of Breaking Bad, featuring Walter Blanco and José Miguel Rosas (as Jesse Pinkman)
5bMP TIL an intersex athlete representing Poland won the 100 meter dash gold medal in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles and her “sexually ambiguous genitalia” (due to a chromosomal disorder known as mosaicism) was not discovered until the autopsy following her 1980 murder in Cleveland.
xYok TIL 95% of the body’s “happiness hormone, serotonin, is found in the bowels.