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TIL “Reading Rainbow’ was cancelled because of President Bush’s "No Child Left Behind”

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6Ege7 TIL in much of the US it is illegal to buy a new car from the manufacturer. You are required by law to go through the middleman of a car dealer, so they can tac on an extra ~30℅.
v1lb8 TIL: About the hollywood heart attack. In media heart attacks are shown to have a sudden onset, when in reality most do not.
rNO6x TIL there is another copy of the Mona Lisa in existence. It was presumably painted by a student of Leonardo da Vinci
R7kEa TIL that over 4,000 prisoners die in custody each year in the United States. Suicide is the leading cause of death in local jails, while state prisons see more cancer deaths. White males are the most likely to die in prison, with one fourth of the fatalities occurring in Texas and California.
wL6b7 TIL that Danone, the company known for yoghurt, has its own exclusive probiotic strain that it uses in it’s products.