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TIL some weather balloon instrument packages contain prepaid mail bags, so if you find them you can post them back to the National Weather Service!

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nb7G TIL Janis Ian met Bill Cosby on tour as a teenager. Cosby, presuming she was a lesbian, is alleged to have warned television shows that she was “not suitable family entertainment” due to her sexuality, and attempted to have her blacklisted.
YeA TIL Henry David Thoreau once accidentally burned down 300 acres of Walden Woods, and was known around town as “wood burner.”
mkMy TIL the number of new law school students has dropped by 13.8% since 2010.
e0eE TIL that 60 years ago, the idea of a politician soliciting campaign contributions was so frowned-upon that Nixon was very nearly kicked off the Republican ticket for doing it
wvm1 TIL that from the late 18th to mid-19th century, it was considered bad for women to read novels based on the belief that women were not “able to differentiate between fiction and life.”