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TIL over half of all fourth-graders in U.S. public schools received free or subsidized ($0.40) lunches in 2011

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D1lrj TIL in 2009, there was a small CS:GO e-sports tournament between virtus.pro & forZe. The sponsors of the event decided to secretly invite a couple of strippers to see if the players could get distracted. The women were topless and tried everything they could, but the players didn't get distracted.
l7MGG TIL that Mozart wrote the lyrics for a canon called "Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber" (translated to: "Lick My Arse Right Well and Clean") and was a fan of vulgar scat humour.
DQOEe TIL that Taylor Swift has an impact on the Canadian economy
MRV7 TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.
M74Z0 TIL that the US State Department recommends drafting a will if you plan to travel to Somalia.