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TIL that blue lighting in public restrooms prevents heroin users from finding veins and shooting up

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7rZ47 TIL that California produces 100% of the U.S almond supply and 80% of the global almond supply
OmVg TIL Pat Riley, former NBA player and now NBA executive with the Miami Heat, trademarked the word “Three-Peat” in 1988. When the Chicago Bulls won three straight championships in the 1990s, he was paid $300,000 dollars in royalties.
LPbQ TIL An idiot is a person perceived to be lacking intelligence. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot is different from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/an ignorant), since neither refers to someone with low intelligence.
xMl1 TIL that worldwide, more than one in every ten marriages is between first and second cousins.
XEAbQ TIL In 1838 a man started celebrity stalking Queen Victoria, breaking into Buckingham Palace multiple times and stealing the Queen’s underwear