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TIL that the 4 suits of cards (♢ ♧ ♡ ♤) correspond to the seasons in a year, and adding all the values of the cards (1 for ace, 11 for jack, 12 for queen, 13 for king, and 1 for joker) adds up to 365, the number of days in a year.

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V8B0 TIL that the Jack Nicholson film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ was filmed in an actual mental hospital and many of the extras were actually mental patients
16gV7 TIL a member of Michigan's State House of Representatives tried to cover up an affair with another member of the House by having his staff spread the rumor he had sex with a male prostitute. He was later charged with 4 felonies over the incident
RLn7 TIL In 2005, after a controversial eminent domain law was passed, allowing corporations to seize private land for their own use, an entrepreneur cited the new law in an attempt to confiscate the home of the judge who ruled in favor of it, generating wide support.
OR71 TIL over 300 incidents of child murder occurred in 1700s Germany and Austria due to incidents of “suicide by proxy”. Religious people were killing young children in order to have the government execute them so they could get into heaven.
OJdR TIL that according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also avid smokers of Marijuana