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TIL the U.S. government accepts donations to reduce the national debt.

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A5A7 TIL the Bell Rock, a reef in the North Sea, had been responsible for thousands of shipwrecks over the centuries, that is until 1807 when an engineer began the “impossible” construction of a lighthouse on the reef itself. Ever since its completion, the Bell Rock hadn’t claimed a single human life.
gr508 TIL: Kurt Cobain was wearing 3 pairs of pants when he died
7r1Db TIL two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued.
MVZK TIL That, in an American experiment, when showed gay porn, 80% of the homophobes had an erection compared to 34% of the non-homophobic subjects
9GD6 TIL Jason Lee, of My Name is Earl finally quit Scientology! (In 2016)