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TIL that there was a real "Lord of the Flies" when six boys were shipwrecked on a island for 15 months

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OkbY TIL that Bill Maher has said that selling marijuana allowed him to make enough money to get through Cornell and enter comedy.
ylO8 TIL that most “brick” crosswalks are merely stamped, colored asphalt
RaO8 TIL Isaac Asimov described Carl Sagan as “one of only two people he ever met whose intellect surpassed his own.”
R5Ny7 TIL of Cottonclads, a class of lightly armed Confederate river ships armored with cotton bales. They used sharpshooters and rams as their main weapons, dropping the gangplanks down to board Union ships. They were used effectively at the Battle of Galveston, capturing the Harriet Lane.
e08wJ TIL For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale