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TIL Dark roast coffee actually has less caffeine than light roasts

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LmXr TIL that around 200 Anti-Lynching Bills were introduced from 1882 to 1968. The Senate would not pass them. In 2005 the Senate formally apologized for stopping these bills.
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Y8m7 TIL that preventable medical errors are estimated to kill 210,000+ hospital patients every year in the US.
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