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TIL that the song “This Land is Your Land” was made to spite the song “God Bless America” for being too blindly patriotic

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o9nE TIL easily more than 10% of women cheat on their spouses (as confirmed irrefutably by a study of baby blood types differing from father’s [pg72 The Science of Adultery])
n679 TIL that the average university student in 1979 only had to work 182 hours per year (a part-time summer job) to pay for tuition, whereas the average 2013 student had to work 991 hours (a full-time job for half the year)
R5n9j TIL that +/- 42k years ago, the “Adam’s Event”, a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles, may have led to the extinction of mega fauna, Neanderthals, and forced humans into caves as the earth experienced intense periods of cosmic radiation, solar winds, electrical storms, and drastic climate change.
JGkl TIL in 2014 Italian and French jets escorted a hijacked plane because the Swiss Air Force only works during office hours.
kMQ5 TIL Violets can be smelled for only a few moments at a time because they get their scent from ionine which shuts the smell receptors off after simulating them. After a few breaths the scent pops up again but the brain registers it as a new stimulus. So everytime you smell a violet is a first time.