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- 04/27/2017
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Interesting fact: Mortarboards aren’t just for graduation they used to be worn by schoolteachers, until the mid-20th century. Because mortarboards don’t look at all silly, they certainly commanded respect from all those little twerps.
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- 04/20/2017
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Interesting fact: Most graffiti laws are local, but a federal law prohibits railroad vandalism. If there were such a law against cartoonish penises, D.C. would look WAY different today.
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- 04/13/2017
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Interesting fact: I tried to find out why we smoke cigars at weddings and other celebrations. But for the first time since I got bored with porn, the internet let me down.
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- 04/06/2017
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Interesting fact: Many Mexican beers are in fact Austrian, dating to 19th century styles when Mexico was briefly headed by the Habsburg clan. Prost!
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- 03/30/2017
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Interesting fact: I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m Rachel and you’re not.
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- 03/23/2017
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Interesting fact: Even spring break is commercial. It started as a marketing ploy by Fort Lauderdale, which hosted the first College Coaches’ Swim Forum in 1938. #partyhard
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- 03/16/2017
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Interesting fact: Guinness in the U.S. is not Irish at all. It’s brewed in places like Canada, and owned by a British multinational corporation. So get drunk on whiskey instead.
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- 03/09/2017
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Interesting fact: The chlorine in swimming pools is a form of bleach. Urine contains ammonia. Ergo, peeing in the pool violates the Geneva Protocol.
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- 03/02/2017
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Interesting fact: Your brain processes 20 million pieces of information a second but retains only 20-40 of them. You know. Give or take.
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- 02/23/2017
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Interesting fact: Octopuses have three hearts – one to pump blood through the body and the other two to push blood through the gills. Be still, my hearts.
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- 02/16/2017
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Interesting fact: Niblings is the plural and/or gender-neutral word to describe nieces and nephews. It is not – NOT – a word I just made up.
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- 02/09/2017
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Interesting fact: You think public bathrooms are gnarly? Your toothbrush is as germy as that bathroom floor.
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- 02/02/2017
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Interesting fact: Dentures do not get cavities. So when in doubt about your water supply, drink Coke.
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- 01/26/2017
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Interesting fact: For every interesting fact I tell you, there’s a corresponding alternative fact. So just choose your own interesting facts and make them true, you crazy diamonds.
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- 01/19/2017
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Interesting fact: I refused to participate in the upcoming inauguration ceremonies for two reasons: because I have morals, and because I was not invited.
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- 01/12/2017
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Interesting fact: Overall smart dude Neil DeGrasse Tyson puts the odds at 50-50 that our entire existence is a computer simulation.
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- 01/05/2017
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Interesting fact: 2017 is a prime number, so it will undoubtedly be unlike any two years before it.
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- 12/22/2016
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Passing the dutchie on the righthand side, snot rockets and for the hearing impaired
Interesting fact: In Britain, they pass the dutchie on the right hand side.
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- 12/15/2016
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Interesting fact: An open marijuana bar at your wedding would save you thousands of dollars over an open alcohol bar.
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- 12/08/2016
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Interesting fact: Octopuses have two- thirds of their neurons in their arms. These arms think independently. They taste what they touch. They regrow after being cut off. And this is why you don’t Google on the company computer they feature prominently in Japanese erotica.
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