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TIL Friday the 13th has become the busiest day of the year for tattoo artists and has become something of a Black Friday for tattoo shops.

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Eg5vP Today I learned that Minnesota is the only US state with a French motto
lo5YB TIL executioners would also often be medical practitioners due to their knowledge of anatomy
grv84 TIL Jimmy Buffett had to sue two entities for the right to open Margaritaville in Key West as they had copywrited the title and a woman in Hawaii copywrited Cheeseburger in Paradise. He had to fight to get the rights to the song he wrote.
80n8 TIL that negative stereotypes about Star Trek fans have existed for a very long time. A 1975 newspaper article mocked them as fat junk-food eaters obsessed about show trivia.
l78Pa TIL that US is a neighboring country of South Korea and Japan because of Guam, a full fledge US territory with 168 thousands inhabitants despite it's not even on the same side of the Earth with continental US.