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TIL Saint Valentine's Keys are given to offer a cure for epilepsy on Saint Valentine's Day

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NgN TIL There was an American musician in the 1970s who sold very few records in the US, so he quit music and became a demolition worker; in 1998, he found out that his records had gone platinum in South Africa.
VMwPp TIL that when a Jewish political opponent accused him of anti-semitism Fiorello La Guardia challenged him to a debate in Yiddish. The man couldn’t speak Yiddish so he declined - and lost the election.
xVwkB TIL about the Military Entertainment Complex - a branch of the DoD that consults on movies and provides accurate equipment
P1Yrg TIL that less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world and a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas found that only 46% use lip-to-lip kissing in a romantic sense, excluding things like parent-child kissing.
a8Wg0 TIL that almost one-third of all traffic fatalities in the United States involve drunk drivers.