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TIL Huey Lewis scored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT

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6D9l TIL that there is 2.5 million of Zero Rupee bank notes in India. They are “paid” in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes
N7y9b TIL that three suburban towns on eastern Long Island are seeing skyrocketing cancer rates. Meanwhile, breast cancer alone on all of Long Island is 13 to 18 times higher than the state average, and has been for decades.
R9G1 TIL that the Wright Brothers achieved flight in a plane that cost roughly $1,000 to build. In the race to fly, they beat Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, who failed to achieve a successful flight, despite having $50,000 of government funding put toward his attempts.
dME TIL that 4 of the 12 people killed in Aurora were acting in true super hero fashion when they blocked their girlfriends from being killed by taking bullets for them and sacrificing their lives.
VBBXD TIL that Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - Queen Victoria’s goddaughter was also a suffragette and therefore marked as a danger to the state.