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TIL most of the caffeine in soft drinks is actually synthetically produced in Chinese pharmaceutical plants

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KZD9 TIL that when your foot or hand falls asleep it’s because of compressed nerves, not lack of blood flow
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GKDQ TIL that two Canadian schoolboys hacked into an ATM using a manual found online. It took them so long to convince the bank they were serious, they were late back to school. So the bank wrote them a note.
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