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TIL The Bar Tab of a 1787 Farewell Party for George Washington Indicates That the Founding Fathers Drank 54 Bottles of Madeira, 60 of Claret, 8 of Whiskey, 22 of Porter, 8 of Cider, 12 of Beer--But There Were Only 55 Attendees

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1akX8 TIL The Ceratodontimorpha is a "living fossil" fish with a highly specialized respiratory system to switch from gills to real lung when it crawls on dry land. They are also capable of surviving seasonal drying by burrowing into mud, secrete a mucus which encloses them in a cocoon...for years.
gMn87 TIL Three men were arrested by NYPD for possession of Jolly Ranchers. The men successfully sued the NYPD for $33,000.
NXaaM TIL Minecraft (2009) was inducted in the Video Game Hall of Fame in 2020, along with Bejewled (2001), King’s Quest (1984), & Centipede (1980). This makes it the first game from the Seventh Generation of video game consoles (2005-13), which includes the PS3, Xbox 360, & Nintendo Wii, to be inducted.
4O5a TIL that in 1973, a study asked doctors to pick out healthy people sent to a psych ward by the researches. Doctors suspected 84 people of being healthy. The researchers actually never sent the healthy people. This led to fundamental doubt of the validity of modern psychological evaluation.
wYlJ TIL Geffen Records expected Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ to sell around 250,000 copies. It was released in September 1991 and by 1992 it was already selling around 300,000 units a week. It has since sold over 30 million copies.