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TIL Ferris Bueller’s actual “day off” was June 5, 1985, pinpointed by the data from the Braves v Cubs game he attended.

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nRer TIL a railroad tunnel in the Canadian Rockies is so straight that one can see daylight from the other end over 5 miles away
4O5a TIL that in 1973, a study asked doctors to pick out healthy people sent to a psych ward by the researches. Doctors suspected 84 people of being healthy. The researchers actually never sent the healthy people. This led to fundamental doubt of the validity of modern psychological evaluation.
xD0b TIL There is a theory in anthropology that memes are “organisms” that compete for survival and spread like viruses
R5bkw TIL some industries in the USA have mandatory retirement ages. Some include pilots in the airline industry at age 65(up from age 60), National Park Rangers at age 57, and Oregon Judges at age 75.
rRWDe TIL in 1983, LA Dodgers pitcher Bob Welch pitched 9 shutout innings and hit a solo home run in a 1-0 win. This is the only time in baseball history this has happened