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TIL “This Is The End” was the last ever DVD to be rented from Blockbuster in 2013

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m1jwM TIL twice the amount of time has passed between the release of Back to the Future and today (39yrs) as between Back to the Future and the Vietnam War protests with Dr. MLK, Jr., Ginsberg, and hippies (18yrs).
e0GXJ TIL fluorine is much less common in the universe than most elements of a similar atomic weight, because the usual nuclear reactions in stars cannot create it, but can destroy it.
RNpQ TIL, at age 2, Mozart successfully identified a pig’s squeal as a G-sharp
Npo8 TIL “Cait Sith” from Final Fantasy VII was actually based on a Celtic lore of a winged cat that stole souls and cursed houses who didn’t leave milk out for him
y1Qw TIL that a 59-year-old man entered a hospital complaining of chest pains, and was found to have a three-chambered reptilian heart, as opposed to a four-chambered mammalian one.