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TIL There are more payday loan stores in the US than McDonald’s and Taco Bells combined.

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xVn5 TIL that the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”
a8DWJ TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones.
BgrXd TIL rapper Immortal Technique used to bully playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda in high school
LkOGp TIL of Katsuma Dan, a Japanese marine biologist who studied in the US before WW2 and who saved his marine lab with a note to advancing American forces asking to preserve his scientific work. (note in comments)
oR99L TIL while composing his 1984 song "When Doves Cry", there was originally was a bass line in the song, but after a conversation with singer Jill Jones, Prince decided that the song was too conventional with it included and omitted the entire bass line.