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TIL the age of consent in Nevada is 16…unless you’re gay. Then it’s 18.

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6PvY TIL Minnie Schönberg, the mother of the Marx brothers, upon hearing that farmers were exempt from being drafted, bought a farm and forced the brothers to work on it so they wouldn’t be called to fight during WWI.
NXXxN TIL in a study of “extreme relistening” researchers found that Bittersweet songs were listened to many more times than the other song types – on average 790 times, vs. 515 for Calm songs and 175 for Happy songs.
9Ygv7 TIL that"Piano Man", Billy Joel's signature song, is in the National Recording Registry, along with Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.
Zm64 TIL there exists a disorienting neurological condition called “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome”, whereby sufferers experience visual hallucinations of seeing things and people as smaller or larger than they actually are (“Lilliputian”).
ANDEg TIL that people can actually die of a broken heart and the medical term is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (broken-heart syndrome)