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TIL there is a pillow fighting championship and they aren’t wearing lingerie. They are trying to get into the Olympics.

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DN1j TIL the value of Pi could be approximated with stunning accuracy by dropping a bunch of matches on a piece of paper.
Ylnd TIL middle aged black men started visiting doctors less after news of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment scandal broke in 1972. This led to their life expectancy falling by 1.4 years, which accounted for “approximately 35% of the 1980 life expectancy gap between black and white men.”
e0p84 TIL The US did not have only two atomic bombs in WWII. They had a third ready to drop on Japan on August 19th that was halted by the surrender. Three to four more bombs were slated to be produced every month in support of a US invasion if Japan did not capitulate.
j6Qdp TIL that a pioneer of the idea "8 hours labor, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest" was a wealthy 19th century businessman who tested out the idea in his own factory and in a town he founded as part of his embrace of socialism and radically equal society
VQLZ TIL that the number of fires in the US declined more than 50% from 1981 to 2011, due to reduced smoking and fire-resistant materials, and that only 5% of calls for firefighters are now fires