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TIL Marc Summers, the host of Double Dare and What Would You Do?, considered becoming a rabbi. After talking to a rabbi, he became a game show host instead

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J1Jrj TIL about Eternal September: How a 1993 AOL promotion led to year-round influxes of new users, a phenomenon that previously only occurred each September with new computer science students.
Z8ANQ TIL in 1997 Eddie Murphy was observed picking up a transgender prostitute named Shalimar Seiuli. She was arrested on an outstanding warrant but Murphy was let go. He claimed he was just giving her a ride.
VBw5B TIL about the Birthday Paradox which says that in a group of 23 people there is a 50% chance that at least two of them will share a birthday. It is considered an example of a veridical paradox which seems wrong at first but is actually true.
9Yx8Q TIL A button-up shirt refers to any shirt that buttons up the front. A button-down shirt refers to the collar of a button-up shirt. If the collar can be fastened to the shirt via buttons, then it’s a button-down shirt.
b97WQ TIL candle wax has ”memory”. If you don’t burn it all the way out to the edges the first time you light it, it will only burn to the same point it was melted at the first time. Resulting in a “tunnel”, faster burn time, and wasting the wax that doesn’t melt.