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TIL Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) allowed Chic-Fil-A to use her song 'Nothings Going to Stop Us Now' in a commercial just so she could take their money and donate it to 'Lambda Legal,' an organization that offers legal support to the LGBQT community and people living with AIDS.

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xwd5 TIL that Subaru once found its brand was well accepted amongst lesbians and embraced the idea
0K1R TIL each person has a “walking signature” that can be detected by their smartphone’s accelerometer data; the signature persists even if you change phones
YjGW TIL that if Helium is cold enough, it will form a “superfluid” where it acts like a liquid with zero viscosity, meaning it will actually try to “climb” out of containers against gravity to escape.
MoO7 TIL there is a saw that will cut wood but not a finger!
7JyL TIL the most common birthday in the US is September 16th.