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TIL The average baseball game has about 18 minutes of action and is 90% standing around

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8QXG TIL that D.A.R.E., the education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, has dropped all mention of marijuana from its curriculum as of December 2012.
l7GxG TIL Stan LePard created the song 'Velkommen' adapted by Windows 98/2k/XP during OS installs, a song many people didn't even hear it if the sound drivers weren't installed yet
0AGA TIL that the 5th US Congress and John Adams mandated health insurance for privately employed sailors and created a socialized government-operated Marine Hospital Service in 1798 by passing the “Act for the Relief of Sick & Disabled Seamen.”
poWp TIL Stalin’s body double was teased in school because of the resemblance with Stalin
mxMlY TIL Marie Curie's annex lab in Arcueil is sometimes called Chernobyl on the Seine. The lab closed in 1978 but radium has a half-life of 1,600 years, and there are traces of a uranium isotope at the Curie annex with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. The cleanup has so far cost about €10 million.