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TIL: 54% of Americans read under a 6th grade level

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VyjG TIL Bob Dylan has been on a tour since 1988. Aptly named, The “Never Ending Tour” has had over 2,700 shows around the world, almost 100 per year for 28 years straight.
5VgoQ TIL in 1979, in between a double-header, the White Sox exploded a crate filled with disco records to stands of over 50k disco haters. Thousands flocked to the field afterward, which became so destroyed that they forfeit the 2nd game to the Tigers - the last time in AL history.
lBrG TIL prisoners in China are reportedly being forced to gold mine in games like WOW to build up credits that prison guards can trade for real money
O4KL TIL The World’s Oceans Contain Over 20 Million Tonnes of Gold
X61k TIL Houdini debunked psychics, a practice that made an enemy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle