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TIL the most common birthday in the US is September 16th.

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Oo4pe TIL a substitute teacher in Ohio was convicted of four felony counts and sentenced to 90 days in jail along with 3 years of probation, for showing a high school Spanish class the 2012 horror film “The ABCs of Death”.
kJWgW TIL: crematoriums need to “ process “ fat people slower otherwise the fat turns to oil, which could leak and ignite the building.
4kOwJ TIL that Ace Hardware Corporation, now the world's largest hardware retail cooperative and the largest non-grocery American retail cooperative, was created in 1924 when three entrepreneurs united their Chicago hardware stores into “Ace Stores,” named after the ace fighter pilots of World War I.
neAEY TIL early people would drink a ton of water before they went to bed if they knew they had to be up early. Their full bladder would rouse them before the sun rose, meaning that they could wake up before dawn. Native Americans also used this method, called over-drinking, well into the 20th century. 💧
ndmW TIL PCWorld rated the ZIP drive as the 15th worst technology product of all time in 2006, but then rated it as the 23rd best technology product in 2007