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TIL You aren’t supposed to wear white after Labor Day due to an old fashion rule made by rich women to separate “Old Money” people from “New Money” people.

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PY1eJ TIL J.K Rowling invented Quidditch while in a pub.
V6gZ TIL that in my home state of Florida it is legal to engage in incest, just so long as you, and your partner are the same sex…
wbdo TIL Albatrosses are so adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first six or more years of their long lives (which last upwards of 50 years) without ever touching land.
Z8V0B TIL in 2017, Offspring’s Dexter Holland Finished a Ph.D program in molecular biology. Publishing a 175-page dissertation on the molecular dynamics of HIV and general virus/host interactions.
Gpkg TIL many of The Cure’s guitar parts, such as the famous one in ‘Just Like Heaven’, are actually 6-string bass parts.