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TIL The 13th day of the month is very slightly more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week

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n9lB TIL that the AIDS quilt is still being added to and currently has over 48000 panels and weighs over 54 tons.
neXj9 TIL Italy spent $50,000,000 bailing out the Parmesan cheese industry.
D1XV TIL the Mötley Crüe song “Kickstart My Heart” was written after bassist Nikki Sixx needed 2 shots of adrenaline directly to his heart from a near fatal heroin overdose. “His two minutes in death were the inspiration for the song”.
vWZ7 TIL of the “Tinker” supreme court case. In 1965 as a Vietnam War protest 3 kids wore black armbands to school. The school banned the armbands. They wore them again and were suspended. The “Tinker test” is used to see if a school’s disciplinary actions violate students’ 1st Amendment rights
aMxJ TIL that life might have existed as early as 15 million years after the Big Bang.