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TIL September is the most common US birthing month, meaning more parents conceive during Christmas time, not Valentine's Day.

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QJkOX TIL the phrase "scot-free" has nothing to do with Scotland and is instead a reference to Scandinavian word for "tax" or "fee": skatt
OoQya TIL That 70's Show is often cited as having the first gay kiss to air on North American prime time television. The 1998 episode Eric's Buddy, featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, aired eighteen months before Dawson's Creek aired the first gay kiss in a romantic context.
eALb TIL People with poor mathematical skills, aren’t necessarily bad at math because they are ‘ungifted’. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety’ that makes people perform worse, which sometimes leads to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more Math anxiety.
Gymj TIL Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, often used for horror movies and vampire scenes, was originally written to showcase the organ in a church
dDeW7 TIL that the singer of the 1982 version of "Puttin' on the Ritz" has the actual first name Taco, rather than being a band called Taco