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TIL that there are just 357 drive-in movie theaters left in America.

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VMa1G TIL that we’ve had the technology for over a decade to create an embryo using only an egg and stem cells - rendering male sperm unnecessary
rRQQo TIL when Mayhem's lead singer Dead committed suicide, the group's guitarist Euronymous made necklaces of his skull and gave them to members of the black metal community. This act made bassist Necrobutcher quit; his replacement, Varg Vikernes, murdered Euronymous 2 years later.
4Xva5 TIL "The Royal Order of Whale Bangers" was a WWII medal presented by patrol squadron (VP-53) to any of its bombardiers who sank a whale instead of a U-Boat.
BgGxr TIL a study on professional slap fighting analyzed 333 slaps for visible signs of concussion & found that more than 50% of the slap sequences resulted in fighters showing visible signs of concussion, with nearly 80% of the fighters demonstrating at least 1 sign of concussion during their matches.
QJVWX TIL of Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army and was assassinated in 1963 by a member of the "White Citizens' Council"