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TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring published scientific findings in PLoS One in 2013

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N7JY8 TIL the author Beverly Cleary is still alive.. and she's 104
4llb TIL indie musician Paz planted 5000 copies of his own album into wrapped CD cases resembling Justin Bieber’s “Believe”, down to the bar code and cover, at major retailers. Paz stated retailers made it impossible to get indie music sold there and that ‘the world won’t really miss a Bieber record’.
4X41J TIL that after the death of several Northern Irish republicans in a prison hunger strike, the Iranian government renamed the street where the British Embassy in Tehran is located from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands Street, after one of the strikers.
xJ8o TIL In 1987, Blockbuster won a court case against Nintendo, paving the way for the rental of video games.
grjE7 TIL the Ron Howard film “Hillbilly Elegy” starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams is based on a memoir written by JD Vance, who is now Vice-President of the USA.