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TIL MMA fighter Rory MacDonald would come out to music like M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", "300 Violin Orchestra" and Nickleback because the music guy was texting Rory's old phone number for his walkout music and a fan was responding

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ner8P TIL In the USA, we vote on Tuesdays because farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Tuesday was established as election day because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on Wednesday in many towns.
x6bV1 TIL: scholars Karl Popper and Wittgenstein once argued whether philosophical problems existed. After Popper said moral rules were legitimate problems, Wittgenstein pointed a fire poker at Popper, daring him to give an example, to which Popper replied: Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers
8eYR8 TIL about Tyrone Jones, a four times all-star Canadian football player who was diagnosed with brain cancer after he blew a tooth out of his nose. He had an inoperable brain teratoma and died 3 years after the diagnosis at the age of 46.
VMYgk TIL that in most places in Switzerland, they won’t collect trash that’s not in special bags that are sold with a built-in fee. Recycling, however, is cheap or free. As a result, Switzerland recycles 54% of solid municipal waste (double the European average) and 76% of recyclable items
4Xkx6 TIL that the first smartphone, an IBM prototype codenamed Angler, debuted in 1992--three years before the word 'smartphone' was invented. It sent emails, ran apps, and had a working touch screen.