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TIL "hear, hear" is an abridgement of "Hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!"

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5V5BQ TIL the New State Assembly voted to honor Bruce Springsteen's song "Born to Run" as the "rock theme" of NJ. The bill didn't pass in the state senate when it was realized the song was about running away from New Jersey.
lgX1 TIL: The airplane crash in Breaking Bad (ABQ) was inspired by a crash from 1986, the real controller’s name was Walter White
OAjR TIL there was once a teenage contestant thrown out of the 2012 National Scrabble Championships because he was found to be concealing two blank tiles.
4XOrJ TIL: [Repost from 3yrs ago] Mythbusters tested breast size and its correlation to cash tips received by restaurant servers - men tipped their large-boobed server 30% more, but women tipped her 40% more.
4XQYX TIL about Kiyoshi Shimizu, a Japanese journalist that helped solved a series of child kidnaping cases and released an innocent man from further prosecution. He also helped solved the murder of Shiori Ino which led to the changes to legal treatment of stalking in Japan