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TIL that up until March 31st 1980 there were anti usury laws capping how high interest rates can go

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DVQr TIL Frank Zappa was so astounded by the success of “Bobby Brown”, especially in Scandinavia, that he wanted CBS to hire an anthropologist to study why the song became such a big hit.
ANgR7 TIL the chemical element calcium is a metal.
6E7aw TIL Alligator Snapping Turtles can live over 150 years, and some have been found with musketballs and flint arrowheads in their shells
nWrmr TIL that the first US nuclear reactor is buried outside of Chicago.
LPW0 TIL Mild-mannered Jon Lovitz went nuts on Andy Dick at a comedy club accusing him of being somewhat responsible for Phil Hartman’s death. Dick apparently got Hartman’s wife back on drugs. Phil was shot five months later.