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TIL: All Rainbows are full circles

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x66po TIL that because the number eight in Cantonese means "fortune", or "to prosper", the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing began on 8/8/08 at 8 minutes and 8 seconds past 8 pm local time (UTC+08).
AaGg TIL before the 1986 All-Star Three point shootout, Larry Bird walked in to the locker room where all the other contestants were getting ready and asked “Which one of you motherfuckers is coming in second?”
jE0a TIL the 3 numbers on an egg carton denote what day of the year it was packaged. 221 (out of 365) is August 9th!
epdeg TIL that Michael Jackson organized a supergroup, in a similar fashion to 'We are the World', for the September 11th attacks, that was never released. The reasons "What More Can I Give" was shelved vary as to why, but could have been because of his then-campaign against Sony Music.
9PjQ TIL UK forced pills often used in suicide to be sold in those annoying blister packs, resulting in 21% to 48% decreases in suicides from those drugs, with no increase in other methods of suicide.