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TIL 3 of the first 5 US presidents died on July 4th.
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TIL in 1931 a suspension bridge was built in Maine; the construction was so far under budget that there was enough money left over to build a second bridge elsewhere.
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TIL The synthesizer that Ferris Bueller uses to simulate his realistic-sounding coughs is an E-MU Emulator II, which at the time went for around $8,000. That’s equivalent to over $17,000 in today’s dollars.
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TIL that buying the Guy Fawkes “Anonymous” mask pays royalties to Time Warner, a nemesis of piracy.
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TIL that while Sid Vicious died tragically at the age of 21 the rest of the Sex Pistols are still alive.
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TIL the average weight for US men aged 20-74 years rose from 166.3 pounds in 1960 to 191 pounds in 2002