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TIL aphex twin's music was featured in a anti drug commercial
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TIL that in 2006, dozens of wives and girlfriends of gang members from Pereira Columbia started a “no sex” strike to force gang members to turn in their weapons with the goal of curbing gang violence. In 2010, the city’s murder rate saw the steepest decline in Colombia, down by 26.5%.
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TIL Silicon & Synapse, Inc was founded on February 8, 1991, but changed their name to Chaos Studios, Inc. in 1993 because of confusion with breast implants. The company changed the name again in 1994 because of Chaos Technologies and they became Blizzard Entertainment because it passed a name check.
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TIL according to a Federal Reserve Bank study, poor kids who do everything right don’t do any better than rich kids who do everything wrong. It’s called “opportunity hoarding,” so not only is there a glass ceiling, there’s also a glass floor.
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TIL that before she was an actress, Sissy Spacek was a singer, who, recording under the name "Rainbo," released a novelty song called "John, You Went Too Far This Time," which was a reaction to John Lennon posing naked with Yoko Ono on the cover of their "Two Virgins" album
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TIL that during the construction of Coors Field (a baseball stadium in Denver, home of the Colorado Rockies) a number of dinosaur fossils were found, most notably a 7-foot triceratops skull. This is why their mascot “Dinger” is a triceratops.