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TIL House of Pain is not actually from Boston but rather LA.

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5ZK8 TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic was valedictorian of his class before earning a bachelors degree in architecture.
X01g8 TIL first two subway stations in the United States were the Boylston and Park Street stations in Boston, which opened in 1897.
O8NX TIL Kat Cole Turned Cinnabon Into A $1 Billion Brand, and she doesn’t have a Bachelor’s Degree.
yVZrw TIL that readiness potentials are a kind electroencephalogram signal that appears before the intention to perform actions, so they were thought to predict awareness of voluntary movement. But this recent study have found them also before the partecipants decided not to move.
0wkLR TIL That the full "Ignorance is bliss" quote by Thomas Gray is "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"