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TIL that John Oliver has impacted legislation through his show “Last week tonight” so often that it is known as the John Oliver effect

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e0Kdb TIL the Cryptex, the cylindrical combination vaults that hold secret messages, made famous in The Da Vinci Code, is a neologism completely invented by Dan Brown and has no historical connection to a real device of the sort.
4kgj6 TIL that this is how American school children addressed the flag during the pledge until 1942, when it was changed to the hand over the heart.
9wkQ6 TIL that 70 to 80% of hemophiliacs being treated with blood products prior to 1985 became infected with HIV
16GmP TIL: The Addam’s Family franchise is based off a 1930s New Yorker cartoon.