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TIL only 4% of people are born on the due date

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v189B TIL "I Get Around" was released as a single in May 1964 along with "Don't Worry Baby" as its B-side and became the Beach Boy's first number-one charting song in the United States.
6MEZ TIL when asked about same-sex marriage in 1970, Richard Nixon said “I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000! Negroes [and whites], okay. But that’s too far!”
m1w9v TIL there has only been one instance of a submarine sinking another submarine while submerged.
kOx71 TIL: Japanese hipsters in Nagoya are dressing like cholos (urban Mexican Americans). Apparently, movies going back to the 80s, some Japanese autoworkers who fell in love with cars in LA, and a popular rapper popularized the trend, drawing people in withits perceived "rebelliousness".
kGYB TIL in 2005 a portion of T-Rex bone was dissolved in acid, it revealed soft tissue with sections of possible DNA.