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TIL the band Panic! at the Disco started out as a Blink-182 cover band

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xVvaD TIL Scientists can read ancient sealed documents and book without opening them
NVZM TIL after the french revolution, France briefly used a new calendar based on a decimal system; 10 days a week, 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute, and starting at Year 1.
EG7x TIL when a man came to a clinic with a chronic infection in his left ear, doctors tried everything to help him from antibiotics to ear drops, but nothing worked. Out of desperation, he decided to take earwax from his good ear and place it in his bad one. After two days his infection was cured.
QJP5X TIL: A single almond requires a gallon (3.8 liters) of water to produce. California produces 80% of the planet's almonds using more water than Los Angeles & San Francisco combined, and generating $11 billion (2014) to the CA economy.
ep6JJ TIL that despite the popular belief that SOS stands for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls", it actually doesn't stand for anything. SOS was developed because it was an easy sequence of letters to remember in Morse Code (three dots, three dashes, three dots).