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TIL Marylin Manson has been sober for 4 years. He went sober 4 days after he was accused of s*xual assault in 2021.

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4XKYN TIL that although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
mxo7M TIL aircraft manufacturers use specialized cannons to fire whole dead chickens at planes in order to simulate bird strikes
5YrxD TIL Tool's CD Lateralus is composed so if you reorder the tracks using the Fibonacci sequence, you get a new album: "The Holy Gift"
a81O9 TIL that the word thug is derived from the Hindi word 'thugee' who were a criminal network of robbers and murderers that operated in India during the British Raj. They would befriend travellers, gain their trust, loot them and then kill them
pYaoQ Today I learned that "ground beef" meant beef that has been ground via some sort of grinding process, not beef that came from the land.