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TIL that the US had something called “ugly laws”
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TIL Billy Joel attempted suicide by drinking furniture polish and ended up in a coma at Meadowbrook Hospital
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TIL in the Senate, there is a desk with a drawer, filled with candy of the of the designated Senator’s choice.
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TIL John Von Neumann proposed an idea of self replicating spacecraft. Robert Freitas calcd they could colonize the milky way in 500k years. That we see no evidence of them implies we are alone. Carl Sagan argued rate of replication would consume so much mass no intelligent species would build them
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TIL The Power of Love, the first number-one hit in the US for Huey Lewis and the News, was written for the movie Back to the Future.
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TIL that in 2015, 1000 musicians played ‘learn to fly’ by foo fighters together in the town of Cesena, Italy in an effort to get the band to come to their town and play. The band responded and came to the town to play a 27-song-set, starting off with 'learn to fly’