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TIL while recording their 2003 “self-titled” album, blink-182 had continuous pay-per-view porn playing and a garage to “smoke hella weed”

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6jOm TIL that the Aztecs considered childbirth as a form of battle, and the women who died during it were honored as fallen warriors
VBlek TIL the Addams Family was the first TV family to own a home computer. It was a UNIVAC.
78n1L TIL about stellar nucleosynthesis, the process by which chemical elements are created by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. The theory can be used to accurately estimate the abundance of elements, why abundance fluctuates, and why some are more common than others.
e0jd4 TIL: Schiphol Airport(Amsterdam) features a man painting the minutes on a giant clock for 12 hours.
Z8RrB TIL when in 1988 Consumer Reports compared 4 American midsize cars, all suffered failures during the test - the Ford and Dodge had their A/C not work, the Eagle had a glovebox that did not close and an unopenable fuel filler door, and the Buick had a knocking engine and a broken door lock.