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TIL that, by law, the Metric System is the preferred measurement system in the United States.

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XgDr TIL in the film ‘Bruce Almighty’ God’s phone number is 776-2323, which is unassigned in Buffalo. The number is real in other area codes though, and these people were inundated with callers asking for “God”. One of the numbers belonged to a church.
BrVmk TIL that in the 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach performed an experiment in which three men with Messianic delusions lived together for two years. He wanted to study how they would reconcile their delusions with the existence of two others with the same irrational belief.
oWM8 TIL MySpace turned down an offer to buy Facebook for $75 million in early 2005
KYMra TIL about Kenneth Pinyan, who died from fatal internal injuries received during anal sex with a stallion
4NrN TIL that Muhammad Ali was vehemently anti-interracial marriage