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

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gr0jW TIL of Witzelsucht, a neurological condition which causes people to compulsively tell inappropriate puns or stories in social situations.
9Dk6 TIL the optimal temperature for productivity is 71 degrees F.
9YbRX TIL what's a "retronym" being something retroactively renamed so it now makes more sense. Like how "analog clock" used to just be a "clock" before digital clocks and how "The Great War" was later renamed "World War I"
R5wv7 TIL a NYC man won two $10 million prizes on two different scratch-offs that he purchased from the same shop just over a year apart.
nern9 TIL In 1915 a woman was found alive after her sister ran late to her funeral, then demanded she see her sister one more time. When they dug her out, the woman sat up and smiled, she went on to live for 47 more years.