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TIL the Red Hot Chili Peppers played for several high school proms to promote the album Californication.

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0wbKj TIL that in 1992, a cargo container containing over 28,000 plastic rubber ducks was lost at sea when it fell overboard on its way from Hong Kong to the United States. These ducks are still being found on shores all across the world in places such as Alaska and Australia.
RLa7 TIL A primary school in East Sussex frustrated with the lack of a dyslexic-friendly sans-serif typeface that taught kids how to write naturally commissioned their own custom font from a London design house. The highly versatile typeface, Castledown, has been nominated for a design of the year award.
kAVE TIL for 10 years in the UK, there was a pro paedophile group that campaigned for the age of consent to be removed/lowered to just 4 years.
ADgdw TIL that the source of the mythical Jackalope may have been a virus that causes rabbits produce horn-like growths.
ONE7 TIL the number of devices connected to the internet now exceeds the number of people in the world