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TIL that in the UK April Fools' Day ends at noon

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wLk0o TIL In 1994, in an attempt to ban raves, the UK passed a law banning public performance of music “wholly or predominantly characterized by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.” In response, the electronic band Autechre issued a track, Flutter, in which no two bars have the same beat.
8rVG TIL only about half of Americans who go to college actually get a degree, making America’s completion rate worse than Slovakia
9w06p TIL about Boltzmann Brains, the idea that any arrangement of atoms is as likely as any other meaning that a fully formed human brain, complete with memories, could spontaneously form in space.
YpBx TIL that at the time of the American Revolution, American colonists had the highest standard of living in the world.
emm5 TIL that humans will regrow a rib equally as strong as the original within only 2 - 3 months of having it surgically shortened.