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TIL Denis Leary and Bill Hicks were close friends, until Leary stole Hicks’ material

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VyP8 TIL that the Rosetta spacecraft, while studying comet 67P, discovered electrons cause the rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules erupting from the surface, not photons (light) as previously thought.
w68M TIL of the Copsey Brothers who were the first men to build a jail in Lower Lake, Ca, the first to occupy it, after celebrating its completion too enthusiastically, and the first to escape, after realizing they had forgotten to nail down the roof.
D1nNJ TIL that in Sweden, Finland and Quebec a check mark (✓) means "wrong".
yQRPJ TIL it was once believed "Crack Babies" did not like to be interacted with and could not learn like normal children. They were not treated like normal children and were given poorer early childhood care and education. When these practices were stopped most of the problems they had went away.
vPXNK TIL 12 of the 20 drunkest cities in the US are in Wisconsin.