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TIL it is common for people to have a recurring nightmare in which it is the day of a final exam and you realize that you forgot you were taking the course and therefore had not attended any of the classes, or variations on this theme.

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PYOmV TIL A an American school board tried to ban a book called “Making it with Mademoiselle”, as they believed it was inappropriate. They hadn’t bothered to research it. They reversed their decision after the book turned out to be a how-to pattern book about dress-making.
8eNZa TIL that Pablo Picasso said of the first moon landing, as published in the New York Times a day later, "It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it and I don't care."
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