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TIL albums are always released on Tuesdays in the US, and no one really knows why

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Z8vmB TIL that villagers in central China have long been using dinosaur bones in medicine and soups, thinking they were from dragons.
nPRd TIL a Baltimore hairdresser helped prove that ancient Roman Vestal Virgins’ hairstyles were not wigs, as was commonly believed, but was instead achieved through the use of needle & thread, which she showed by recreating the hairstyle on a live person for the first time in centuries
0G9p TIL that in 2007, the year before Breaking Bad premiered, Mexican meth imported to America averaged 37% purity. In 2011, the same year in the show the characters started making meth for a Mexican cartel, it was up to 88%.
mwAv TIL A law was passed in Wisconsin last year to make rubber duck races legal since they were previously classified as gambling
kkg7 TIL in 2001, the United States Court of Appeals upheld the right of Alice Randall to publish a parody of ‘Gone with the Wind’ called 'The Wind Done Gone’, which told the same story from the point of view of Scarlett O'Hara’s slaves, who were glad to be rid of her.