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TIL that according to DC Cannon; Metropolis is located in Delaware and Gotham is in New Jersey

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xd9b TIL that the “Tetris” tune is actually a 150 year old Russian folk song in which a street vendor flirts with a customer while haggling over goods.
lox4B TIL Fernald State school exposed mentally ill children to radioactive isotopes to document the effects. They had no permission from the kids or their parents & told the kids they were part of a “science club.” The experiments were conducted by Harvard University & sponsored by Quaker Oats.
P1KNO TIL In the list of the top 20 highest grossing musical tours of all time only U2 appears 3 times, grossing $736M in 2009, $390M in 2017, and $389M in 2005. Taylor Swift is no. 1 on the list with the only tour to ever gross over a billion dollars.
b9bY4 TIL about reminders by association
8elgG TIL that the line "You gotta keep 'em separated" in The Offspring's song "Come Out and Play" came from when singer Dexter Holland worked in a biology lab. He had two steaming flasks of liquid that weren't cooling off when placed next to each other, so he thought, "I've got to keep 'em separated."