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TIL that Friday the 13th is the most common day of the week for the 13th to fall on

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78G4M TIL some cheeses are ripened with live mites, which are then eaten along with the cheese
kJo94 TIL Henry Winkler, Carrie Fisher, Elvis Presley all turned down roles in the 1978 movie Grease; Andy Warhol was prevented from appearing in it.
VAYp TIL Sylvester Stallone’s crooked mouth is due to paralysis of the lower left side of his mouth, from birth complications. Furthermore, actor Milo Ventimiglia suffers from the same problem and subsequently starred as Stallone’s on screen son in Rocky Balboa.
dDWNK TIL that in 1320, the city of Avignon put an entire species of beetle on trial to try and protect their harvest, and they demanded the beetles to withdraw to a designated reserve. When the beetles refused to comply, they were outlawed, detained, and killed.
VgaB TIL Republicans fund science more than Democrats, and Democrats under Clinton cut the NASA budget by 25%, and under Bush, the budget went up by 20%