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TIL Aaron Paul may have worked with Bryan Cranston earlier in his career had he gotten a role he auditioned for, ‘Francis’ on Malcolm in the Middle

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8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
69GY7 TIL: Schizophyllum commune, known as the splitgill mushroom, has 23,328 distinct sexes
5Rg8 TIL that slaves were forbidden from owning drums, as they were used to communicate. New Orleans was the only city where slaves could legally own them. Hundreds of slaves were allowed to gather each Sunday to trade, sing, dance, and play music. This led to the birth of Jazz.
r0Yy TIL In 2005, a fortune cookie company correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation.
Epg0 TIL there is one person still living who was born in the 19th Century - Susannah Mushatt Jones, born July 6, 1899