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TIL Primus is the only band with its own genre tag on iTunes/Winamp.

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Z8bxp TIL In 2013 the American Medical Association (AMA) decided to recognize obesity as a complex, chronic disease that requires medical attention.
x6pm5 TIL Millvina Dean was the last and youngest survivor of the Titanic. She was just over 2 months old when the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. Dean credits her father for her survival. She was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.
d8XX9 TIL that thanks to a substance called "Snus", the rate of daily smokers in Sweden has been reduced to 5%
N7wB8 TIL about the Centralia Mine Fire. It is an underground coal mine fire that has been burning since 1962. It has led to the abandonment of 2 towns in PA. The area's 17927 zip code has been revoked by the US. The fire is estimated to burn for another 250 years.
rRPde TIL that Tay was an artificial intelligence bot that was released by Microsoft via Twitter on March 23, 2016; it caused controversy when the bot began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account, causing Microsoft to shut down the service only 16 hours after its launch.