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

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E7rd TIL CNN’s founder Ted Turner, at the launch of the channel in 1980, promised: “We won’t be signing off until the world ends. … We’ll be … covering it live. … [And] when the end of the world comes, we’ll play ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ before we sign off.”
AM8n TIL The Dead Kennedys recorded a song called “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” in response to skinheads who mistook them for a neo-nazi group due to the title of the song “California Über Alles”
nWoJo TIL In the US. up until 1996, nicotine patches and gum required a prescription from a doctor
8an1L TIL The Worlds oldest mummies are not from Egypt. They are from the Chincorro people of the Atacama Desert, present day Chile, dating back to 5000 BC, nearly 2000 years before the Egyptians
4X8jX TIL Humans can survive indefinitely on a diet of just potatoes and butter