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TIL that toilet paper companies have made the paper roughly 20% smaller than they used to be, and have made the cardboard tube larger, all while increasing the price.

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JY7E1 TIL in 2012 Taylor Swift held a contest where she would perform at your school. Internet trolls hijacked the contest allowing a school for the deaf to win. She backed out of the performance and sent a check instead.
GYXLG TIL there was concern that red headed people with blue eyes were going extinct because only around 17% of people have blue eyes, and 1-2% have red hair -- the odds of having both traits is around 0.17%.
KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother
Me7r7 Unpredictable extremes of weather could be a huge problem. Simon N. Gosling, a geographer at the University of Nottingham in England, and Robert E. Davis of the University of Virginia agree that hotter weather on average isn't as dangerous as unexpected weather. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April looked at how temperature fluctuations over a single summer affect mortality in vulnerable populations.
696mJ TIL Musician Neil Young owns a custom 1959 Lincoln Continental modified into a hybrid electric car, named “LincVolt”.