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TIL "Save Me" by Aimee Mann is about Dave Foley (Kids In The Hall, NewsRadio)

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0wp9N TIL about the Dog's Bollocks, a defunct punctuation mark which appears in the Declaration of Independence and symbolizes a pause but fell to the wayside because of its phallic resemblance
96DQ TIL that during the 70s one suicide jumper from the Golden Gate Bridge had a note that read “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.”
16DwX TIL the liquid ban on planes wasn’t caused by 9/11 but by British MI5, who foiled a 2006 terror plot involving liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.
05YL TIL that Cuba has one of the world’s highest literacy rates
4XGEw TIL that some birds form crèches, a "daycare system" where baby birds separate from their parents and form a group supervised by a few adults, allowing their parents to go forage for food.