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TIL a Kindle loaded with e-books is 10^-18 grams heavier than an empty one

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DQNYY TIL that at the 1992 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding figure skated to a song called "People Are Still Having Sex." The non-instrumental was a Billboard US dance chart #1 hit, featuring a narrator talking about the fact that people are still having sex.
VBQNQ TIL after 9/11, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) sent an internal memo to program directors containing "lyrically questionable" songs they suggested should be avoided. It included "What A Wonderful World", "New York, New York", and Rage Against the Machine's entire discography.
loZoN TIL that a cancelled Hulk film was to feature him fighting a giant hummingbird and a giant beetle.
9YmXr TIL The Talking Heads only had ONE top 10 hit: Burning Down the House. Once in a Lifetime didn’t even make the top 100.
dDpyK TIL that antidisestablishmentarianism, famous for being one of the longest words in the English language, is the belief that the government should continue recognizing an official state church.