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TIL the "Dog Days of Summer" doesn't have to do with dogs laying around during the hottest days of the year, but the location of Sirius in the night sky

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MEVA TIL Dubai has a TGI Thursday’s instead of TGI Friday’s
ZOJY TIL that the guy who wrote The Anarchist Cookbook became a teacher, denounced his book, and was unaware of how many perpetrators of violent crimes had a copy of his book in their possession.
j6dyE TIL social media pundits widely criticized the Mr. Beast "1,000 Blind People See For The First Time" video as an extravagant philanthropic stunt and accused him of being "charitable for views."
6E5vJ TIL the lyric “they stab it with their steely knives” from “Hotel California” by the Eagles is a nod to Steely Dan for the free publicity they gave them when the Eagles were mentioned in a lyric from Steely Dan’s song “Everything You Did” which goes “turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening”.
awXAb TIL water is diamagnetic. If you have enough salt in the water and put a magnet near close by it, it will push the water.