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TIL that the subscription business model has been around since the 17th Century

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Qj4a TIL Britain got ‘Ding Dong the witch is dead’ to number two in the charts after Margaret Thatcher Died
lonyG TIL that those "baby on board" signs hanging in car windows serve a purpose of alerting first responders that there is a person in the vehicle that's unable to unbuckle themselves in the event of an accident
WdnA TIL that there is a ‘your momma’ insult in the bible (2 Kings 9:22). When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”
e0NJ4 TIL LCD screens are polarized
OwV4 TIL in 2016, with the support of her mother, a U.K. teenage girl with terminal cancer successfully petitioned London’s High Court for the right to be cryogenically frozen. The girl died with the knowledge that she would be frozen, and her body was sent to the U.S. for long-term cryogenic storage.