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TIL: Jews make up 62% of religious hate crime victims in the United States.

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xnx5 TIL that in 1996 small town Spanish Fork, Utah accidentally booked a Rage Against the Machine concert and citizens promptly lost their shit. “I’m concerned there might be a riot or something. It kind of scares me, that’s why I’m getting out of here,”
0vkR TIL The electrician who first discovered Kurt Cobain’s body called a local radio station to break the news, before calling police
DQ49j TIL Let's Potato Chips is a fictional brand of potato chips that has appeared in shows such as Community, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and many others. Let's was created by prop company, Independent Studio Services, to avoid copyright concerns.
lonrK TIL a farmer hid the construction and existence of a 4-bedroom castle under a huge pile of hay bales for 6 years. When he thought he’d outlasted the statute of limitations, he unveiled it to the public, the city council found out, and immediately ordered its destruction.
KYQJ TIL Einstein proposed in an inch long equation: “Gravity” doesn’t pull, instead space pushes. “Gravity” is only the apparent effect of the bends in space. G = 8 π T