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TIL about 'Quahog Day', when Doug the Quahog predicts how many days of sunshine Cape Cod will get over the summer

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byNQ TIL the ‘Tetris Effect’, where a person devoting a large amount of time to a particular pattern-based activity will start unconsciously thinking and dreaming about it
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MenLB TIL that if February, Germany charged a 95 year old woman with 10,000 counts of aiding and abetting murder because she was a stenographer for a SS officer at a concentration camp when she was 17. She lives in a nursing home, but if the case goes to trial, she will be tried in juvenile court.
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