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TIL That every year there are 71,000 ER cases involving bunk beds, and two thirds are young adults rather than children.

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vPyPD TIL there are only 14 possible (Gregorian) Calendars but it takes 26 years to cycle through them. If you start with 9 different consecutive calendars it takes another 17 years to “collect” the other 5.
W45X TIL that some Cuban cigar factories employed a “Lector” who would read newspapers, political treatises and classical literature aloud to help break the monotony of the cigar-rollers’ work, thus even illiterate cigar-rollers would be well-informed and familiar with great literature.
bZPE TIL that Key West once seceded, declared war on the US, surrendered after one minute, and applied for a billion dollars in foreign aid in order to protest a border patrol roadblock.
4Kda TIL that a Googolplex (1 followed by a googol zeroes) can’t be written down because it would take up more space than there is in the known universe.
0P15 TIL that NASA engineers and employees in the firing room celebrate successful launches with a tradition of eating beans.