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

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0wdrM At least 400 science articles cite nonexistent ‘phantom’ study.
4Xb65 TIL that Ulysses S. Grant, while poor and struggling to support his family in 1859, chose to free the slave he received from his father-in-law, rather than selling his slave
XEwV6 TIL of "Artist's Shit", an artwork that consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams of the artist's feces. The cans are steel, and cannot be x-rayed or scanned to determine the contents, and opening a can would cause it to lose its value; thus, the true contents are unknown
5YE9k TIL the country if Lesotho has an HIV rate of 24%, with 40% of urban women under 40 being HIV positive
7OXL TIL that executioners in the Middle Ages extracted fat from bodies and sold it to doctors. They claimed that ointments made from human fat could treat joint and bone ailments. In 2001, scientists discovered that human fat contains stem cells which can be converted into bone and cartilage.