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TIL John Mayer became interested in the guitar after watching the prom scene in Back to the Future

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NGkN TIL In Ohio, It is illegal for foster parents to make their children who are of the opposite sex to share the same room.
KYZgJ TIL there are 56 United States Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipients who received the medal for jumping on grenades and mines to save the lives of their comrades.
8a94b TIL that a target of the BTK serial killer escaped death in 1973 by arriving home later than he’d expected. BTK had become obsessed with her and was “absolutely livid” when she evaded him. He’d waited hours for her, but got impatient and left when she didn't come home.
P146w TIL 'Lord' and 'Lady' derive from Old English 'hlaf-weard' and 'hlaf-dige'; bread-warden and bread-kneader
8a9WZ TIL that in an experiment done on mice with Alzheimer's, exposing them to lights flickering at 40hz for an hour, reduced the beta-amyloid plaques in their brains by 50%.