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TIL that the US government runs an official dad joke database

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1Y7D TIL the Law & Order sound is trademarked, and described as “two musical notes, a strike and a rapid rearticulation of a perfect fifth pitch interval, which in the key of C sounds the notes C and G, struck concurrently”
6Ayl TIL that there is a species of ant that is totally incapable of caring for their young, or feeding themselves, and thus relies on slave labor from other ants
0v4v TIL that in 1978 the average four year public institution costed $2,145 to attend equating to $7,695.55 in 2014 dollars.
BgdYb TIL that in addition to names like “Hope”, “Felicity”, and “Prudence”, Puritans also named their children things like “Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save”, “Damned”, and “Fly-fornication”.
EegV TIL that in 2001, Neopets was the fourth most trafficked website on the internet, 8 spots in front of Google.