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TIL that you are more creative when you are tired or drunk

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Me1jm TIL The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was written by Victor Hugo as part of a campaign to preserve Gothic Architecture around Paris. Prior to the novel, the cathedral was in bad shape and at risk of eventual demolition. As a result of tourism from the book, Paris started restoration work instead.
6EwPW TIL NASA has an overdue fine for $400 owed to the Dundas Shire in WA Australia for littering
E1gN7 TIL in 2007 the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force attempted the advertise their upcoming movie by planting Lite Brite devices of one of the shows characters all around Boston. The entire city or Boston went on lockdown thinking the devices were bombs in an attempted terror attack
xeyD TIL in 1987 a lone Chilean Flamingo named Pink Floyd escaped from a zoo in Salt Lake City and lived alone in the wild in Utah on the Great Salt Lake, surviving off brine shrimp. He was last seen in 2005, but others have claimed they’ve spotted him since.
Z87Xo TIL that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie posthumously saved a girl’s life by having written in one of her stories about a rare poison. That same poison was killing this girl in real life, and the doctors had no clue, but a nurse happened to be reading that story at the time.