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TIL Mean Girls was based on self-help book aimed at parents of teenage girls

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78OkL TIL Candlewicks are asymmetrical braiding. When it burns it curls on that side. Before that invention you had to trim the wick every few hours as your candle would smoke.
nelwB TIL that Texas scrapped the last meal tradition for condemned inmates after one of James Byrd Jr's killers died without having touched his enormous request
4X4EJ TIL Steve Jobs once told a reporter that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things" he did in his life
nW0r7 TIL: Koalas have fingerprints so similar to humans that they can be mistaken for evidence at a crime scene.
dDkV9 TIL in 2016 a doctor performed surgery on the wrong baby. The mother thought her newborn was going for a routine checkup, but instead found out that a frenulectomy had been performed on her healthy baby. A procedure where the flap of skin under the tongue is clipped to give it more range of motion.