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TIL: Nine percent of college-educated parents want their kid to play professional sports, versus forty-four percent of parents without a college degree.

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GYwgj TIL that the song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by Sublime isn't about the South Central Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four police police officers in the beating of Rodney King. It's about the Long Beach, CA riots that erupted a few days later as a result of the South Central riots.
x5rD TIL Norway has the World’s biggest sovereign fund, where it has been saving almost all the money it gets from the sale of oil and is worth almost a trillion dollars.
YKLB TIL “blowjob” used to be “Below job” in Victorian England, but got shortened to “Blow job” over time
9YZR6 TIL the US sent 15-year MLB veteran Moe Berg to a 1944 lecture given by Werner Heisenberg (of uncertainty principle fame) with orders to shoot Heisenberg if his lecture indicated that the Germans were close to completing an atomic bomb.
pkoO TIL of Radithor, a health drink in the 1920s that contained radium and slowly killed its customers. But it didn’t cause a public health crisis because it could only be afforded by rich people (unlike cheaper, safer knockoffs)