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TIL: Most ATMs run Windows XP, which Microsoft is ending support for on April 8th

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N7A7E TIL Andrew Lloyd Webber (the creator of successful musicals such as ‘Cats’, ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and many more) owns 7 theatres on the West End, has won an Emmy, Oscar, Tony and Grammy and was knighted in 1992.
E1JNX TIL that when a dead whale washed up on an Oregon beach, they decided the best way to dispose of the body was to detonate it, unintentionally covering the townspeople in whale blood.
rR0Md TIL about "pearling"; the act of inserting small beads or smoothed pieces of domino under the skin of one's penis, commonly done in prison.
jprN TIL Nearly one third of the American labor force works on the weekend
m1NWv TIL: People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.