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TIL July 2 is the midpoint of a common year

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6E18W TIL New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine, published between 1935 and 1947, was the first American comic-book series to feature solely original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips and the first publication of the company that would become DC Comics
oper TIL The Sesame Street character Ernie’s song “Rubber Ducky You’re The One” made it to #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970
KQ5G TIL there is a whistle-blower known as Clare Francis (possibly a fake identity for multiple people) who is responsible for tipping off over 100 academic journals about suspected fraudulent research.
awM6N TIL the source code for 13 Atari games, including Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede, were found in a dumpster behind their office building in California
epkeD TIL about Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, an Ugandan religious movement whose leaders claimed the apocalypse would occur on Dec 31, 1999. When that passed without incident, a new date Mar 17 was announced and a gathering held. There was a fire, killing all 530 attendees.