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TIL a new SNES game will be released in 2013

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X0mKr TIL that the father of Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat and Fugazi singer) was in the presidential motorcade when JFK was assassinated
V8rZ TIL that HP Lovecraft wrote nearly 100,000 letters in his lifetime, the second most number of letters written by anyone in recorded history; the first was French writer Voltaire. Lovecraft said, “I write [letters] exactly as easily and as rapidly as I would utter the same topics in conversation.”
xPO7 TIL there is an airline that will let you “join the mile high club” for $425.
QNDna TIL that "Hero Rats" can be used as a failsafe to check for tuberculosis at a rate of 100 samples per twenty minutes, a task that takes human microbiologist four days.
8araG TIL that alcohol content is referred to as "proof" because it was originally lit on fire to prove its alcohol content so it could be taxed at a higher rate for the government.