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TIL Congress’s calendar for 2013 consisted of 239 days off.

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69Bkl TIL in 1937, Marion Anderson gave a concert at Princeton but was denied lodging at a local segregated hotel. Einstein invited her to stay at his nearby home. They became friends, and she often stayed at his house whenever she visited Princeton
EWb0 TIL that in 2014 the Danish government recreated their entire country in Minecraft. It took 4 trillion blocks to build. However, it was discovered that you could use TNT Minecarts on the server. Almost immediatly people started blowing up towns, and planting american flags and tanks over the ruins.
7rXbb TIL there is a hotline in the US for screaming into the phone, and they will record you and upload your voice to the internet.
wLAWP TIL Chuck Wepner, the inspiration for Rocky, boxed/wrestled Andre the Giant in 1976. It is speculated that the match influenced Rocky III (1982), which features a fight where Hulk Hogan, "Thunderlips", throws Rocky out of the ring, as Andre did Wepner in real life.
R5V54 TIL Matt Damon had only 45 lines to speak in the last Jason Bourne movie