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TIL the “Stranger Things” font is the same one used on the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook from the late ‘80s.

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1apPW TIL that in 1973, Marcus Foster, the first black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District, was murdered by the Symbionese Liberation Army, because they believed he supported the plan to create a student identification card system that would help keep non-student drug-dealers off campus.
gMMNb The galaxy getdown
E1WnX TIL Scientists have turned spinach into beating human heart tissue
VpQB TIL The statute of limitations for Financial Crimes is 5 years, meaning most of the banksters responsible for 2008 will never be prosecuted.
7rBeM TIL that "the Defenestration of Prague" was an actual historic event that shaped world history and led to 8 million deaths. (Yes, they really mean "defenestration". I never knew how that hilarious word came to be, but turns out this is the origin.)