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TIL Phantom of the Opera (the stage show) is available on YouTube as part of #Stay Home

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gMdA9 TIL that the irregular shapes of the letters in the Comic Sans font type allows people suffering from dyslexia to read more easily. While many fonts use repeated shapes to create different letters, such as a ‘p’ rotated to made a ‘q,’ Comic Sans uses few repeated shapes, creating distinct letters.
P1xKE TIL about Bruce Lindahl a serial killer who died after accidently stabbing himself in the leg while in the process of murdering another man.
857b TIL - Drinking 2 cups of coffee daily has been found to drop the risk of suicide by 50% compared to non-coffee drinkers.
QNWx6 TIL the orange is a hybrid between pomelo and mandarin
QVQM TIL that President Andrew Jackson told Vice President John Calhoun “If you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body” when South Carolina tried to nullify federal law in 1832.