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TIL that in 1982, while wearing his future wife Sharon’s dress, Ozzy Osbourne drunkenly urinated on a cenotaph erected in honour of those who died at the Alamo in Texas. He was arrested and subsequently banned from the city of San Antonio for 10 years.

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yVdkl TIL that having a small amount of insulation on a cylinder (like a pipe or water heater) can actually make it lose heat faster than if it were entirely uninsulated. This is known as the critical thickness of insulation. Having more than the critical thickness makes the heat transfer rate go down.
W7LjL TIL the price of textbooks increases by an average of 12% with each new edition
PYp6n Today I learned about Lychrel numbers. A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers. For example 57+75 = 132, 132+231 = 363, a palindrome. There is no known sequence for 196
DOrp TIL Adele never made a music video for her #1 song “Set Fire to the Rain” because she was undergoing vocal surgery at the time the song was released. This is why an unofficial lyrics video of the song has gotten over 300 million views on YouTube; the most watched lyrical video of all time.
KBL9 TIL Public school districts receive the majority of their funding from property taxes, not from federal funding, which explains why schools from well of neighborhoods are well funded while schools in poor neighborhoods lack resources and funding.