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

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knXm TIL Social Media Has Overtaken Porn As The #1 Online Activity
VB7bQ TIL Londoners consume more cocaine per year than Europe's next three cocaine-consuming cities, combined.
Ooweg TIL Rick Rescorla saved nearly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees on 9/11 due to safety and evacuation planning stemming from the 1993 WTC bombing
16VgP TIL the Pointer Sisters, who were megastars in the early 1980s with dance/pop songs such as "I'm So Excited", "Jump (For My Love)", and "Automatic", won their first Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Country Vocal Performance for the country song "Fairytale", written by sisters Anita and Bonnie Pointer.
JYDy1 TIL J.R.R.Tolkien had a peculiar sense of humor. Along with his friend C.S. Lewis, he once dressed as a polar bear for a non-costume party and would chase neighbors away dressed as an Anglo-Saxon warrior.