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

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oRlZA TIL a number of people, including a group of Swedish researchers, tried to replicate the experiment shown in the documentary Super Size Me(2004). None of them were able to get the same results as the documentary creator.
W7LwB TIL Taking an old song and just changing the words to make a new song is called contrafactum. Earliest examples of contrafactum date to the 9th century and a famous examples is "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", 1800s adapted from "Marlborough Has Left for the War", 1700s.
epgR5 TIL For 1 day in February 2018, China's internet censors banned the letter 'N'
Qv7E TIL As a joke, Pablo Escobar asked one of his men to bring him a cup of coffee and quietly popped an Alka-Seltzer. Escobar accused his bodyguard of poisoning him and ordered his men to tie the man up and point a machine gun at him for ten minutes while he begged for his life
MeRa0 TIL at 23 River Phoenix died of a drug overdose outside a club owned by Johnny Depp in front of brother Joaquin and sister Rain Phoenix. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were performing and when he heard, good friend Flea jumped off stage during a song to run outside