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TIL that in 1958, 5% of the United States Believed in Interracial Marriages; by 2013, this had risen to 87%.

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0lBv TIL that when the pirate Klaus Störtebeker and 10 of his companions were executed, a senator asked the executioner if he was tired after this, but he replied he could easily execute the whole of the senate as well. The senate sentenced him to death for that and a senator himself executed him.
YbJr TIL of Myrtle Corbin, a dipygus with two separate pelvises, two vaginas, and two uteri. She preferred intercourse in her right side, but became pregnant on her left.
neDRr TIL that William Shatner did a spoken word cover of Golden Earring's Twilight Zone
vPd84 TIL in 2006 two woman were charged with criminal mischief for heating a fake penis called a “Whizzinator” in a convenience store microwave in order to pass a drug test. The clerk thought it was a real penis and called police. Charges were dropped after they agreed to replace the microwave.
vPENR TIL a classical work described as "Ode to Internet - V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra" was composited from a July 27, 1996 performance with the Monteverdi Choir and L’Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Avery Fisher Hall.