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TIL Closing Time by Semisonic Is About Childbirth, Not Last Call at a Bar.

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RJEQ TIL That Sir Patrick Stewart used to regularly fabricate fake news in the newspaper he worked for because he was spending his time practicing theatre with a theatre company during times that conflicted with his work schedule as a journalist.
X0naQ TIL when East Germany reunified with West Germany in 1990, the German government withdrew East Germany banknotes from circulation, but instead of burning them, they let them rot in a concrete bunker until two people broke in and stole a large quantity of notes in 2001. Then what was left was burned.
Z9jQ TIL People knew that the Earth was round in Columbus’ times. They just wouldn’t give him a charter for a voyage because they knew that Asia was much further away than he thought.
WknvL TIL Breast cancer is sometimes incidentally found during cardiac nuclear stress tests because of how the isotopes are absorbed in the chest
d8Xr7 Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature? Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean…