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TIL Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends is actually a song dedicated to Billie Armstrong’s father who died of cancer on September 1st, 1982.

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WkGp9 TIL Japan's film rating system includes PG-12 & R-15+ ratings.
7rj7X TIL in 2002 an Internet geolocation service began using 38,-97, located in Kansas, as the default coordinates for all IPs it was unable to find. This led to a rural farm getting harassed by incompetent law enforcement investigators, doxxers, and Internet crackpots.
yQjOJ TIL that about 1 in 5 people suffer from photic sneeze reflex. A genetic condition that causes them to sneeze when exposed to a bright light, like the sun.
4gdR TIL Carroll Shelby supposedly placed a $100 bill in the glovebox of a Shelby Cobra 427 - if you could reach forward and grab it under acceleration, you could keep it.
QJnpL TIL that mosquitos can pause & resume their development lifecycle stages egg -> larva -> pupa -> adult. While each of these stages typically last 5 - 14 days, if conditions are unfavourable (heat, cold etc), they can delay the transition by even a year by going into diapause (dormant stage)