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ZpJWG TIL 'The Democratic Review', published between ~1837 and 1859, was a progressive/liberal periodical that included essays by Browning, Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau, was also the first to use the term and advocate "manifest destiny".
d8D68 TIL of Jean Meslier, who was a French Catholic priest, who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism. From Meslier, Diderot is said to have derived the quote "And with the guts of the last priest let's strangle the neck of the last king".
JY864 TIL Matthew McConaughey's brother, Rooster McConaughey, named his son Miller Lyte and got free beer for a year.
DQPpe TIL Ethan Zuckerman, the man who created pop-up ads, has said sorry to the world for inventing one of the most detested forms of online advertising.
jNxvj TIL In 1915 Closing and Opening times in pubs had to be implemented to stop factory workers showing up to work drunk and harming the war effort