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TIL Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, had a sexual relationship with a 14 year old and wrote the song "Catholic School Girls Rule" about it.

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NVXP TIL in Sweden fathers are eligible for 13 months of PAID leave for every child they have.
b9KZ TIL that when Einstein “wanted a divorce from his first wife, he gave her the ultimatum that, if she wanted to remain with him and not grant him a divorce, then he expected her to serve him three meals a day in his room but not expect any intimacy in return.”
e09mJ TIL that the photons that light up the earth are not 8 min. 20 sec old but thousands of years old trapped inside the Sun and recently freed.
pYd6Z TIL “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the wordiest show on TV with 176.2 words per minute, which makes the Rob McElhenney-created FX sitcom the hardest series to follow if you’re watching with subtitles.