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TIL that, over the last 30 years, investing in LEGO sets have had 11% better returns than gold, stocks, or bonds.

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69L8X TIL that in 1949, a NJ gas station owner started the first cheap self-serve station in the state; rival stations tried to intimidate him into closing, but when even a drive-by shooting didn't work, they got the legislature to pass a law banning self-service that is still on the books today
LQv5Z TIL the songwriter for the hit “Tequila” (1957) never received royalties for the song until the 2000s, and passed in 2006
oRnrW TIL that when BET, Black Entertainment Television, aired the TV show The Wire, they edited out much of the second season, which focuses on mostly white dock workers
0wdAR Possibly. The trees-down (or “arboreal”) hypothesis has been around for many years, says evolutionary biologist Richard O. Prum of Yale University. Researchers guessed that the scales of tree-dwelling Triassic reptiles elongated into feathers, which helped them leap away from predators. Once the proto-birds could glide, they were en route to avian flight. “It was like one big, crazy hairball of ideas all stuck together,” Prum says.
WrZY TIL Valentine’s day remembers Saint Valentine, who was arrested, beaten by clubs, and beheaded for refusing to stop performing marriages