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TIL If Groundhog Day falls on Sun Pennsylvania bars can legally open at 7am

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BgBnd TIL an analysis of Beethoven's hair found high levels of lead, arsenic & mercury. The high amount of lead in particular likely contributed to his deafness. One lock of hair had 380 micrograms per gram & a second one had 258 micrograms. A normal level of lead is around 4 micrograms or less per gram.
YpQG7 TIL Djibouti author Abdourahman Waberi wrote a story about a world in which Africa was more advanced compared to the West. In her writing, Zurich held the highest rate of AIDS infections and African leaders were making broad pronouncements about the hoards of impoverished, starving Japanese
7rMpp TIL only 2 infectious diseases have been completely eradicated: the rinderpest virus which affects cattle, and the smallpox virus
Oonr6 TIL a number is divisible by 3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3. We know the number 627, for instance, is divisible by 3 because 6+2+7=15, which is divisible by 3.
LQB1v TIL the oldest known "Yo Mama" joke was found on a 3500 y.o. broken tablet in Iraq. And is missing the punchline.