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Today I learned chicken pox doesn’t come from chickens.

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KYbgQ TIL the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (who died of throat cancer in 2012) straight-up invented a sound never heard before: the reverse drum beat, played on Paul Revere (source in notes)
moJR TIL the Patriot Party, a socialist party in the 1960s/70s, organized poor, rural whites and worked closely with the Black Panthers as a serious political force until being destroyed by the FBI as part of COINTELPRO
P14LG TIL that American pornography had a 'golden age' between 1969 and 1984. This was marked by pornographic films receiving positive attention from movie critics and the general public, including mainstream broadcasting in cinemas.
5VKXR TIL there was an Pokémon episode where a scene with flashing lights induced photosensitive epileptic seizures in children across Japan. Over 600 children were taken to hospitals. The incident is referred to in Japan as the "Pokémon Shock".