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TIL in 1963 a 16 year old sent a 4 question survey to 150 well-known authors (75 of which replied) in order to prove to his English tutor that writers don't intentionally add symbolic content to their books.

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VEMm TIL that a rat and a human were hooked up to a virtual reality simulator to interact with each other. The subjects were 12 miles apart and the human did not know the rat was a rat.
RXk6 TIL According to estimates from Scandinavian research centre Sintef, 90% of all the data the human race has ever produced has been generated in the past two years.
5MaD TIL In the early days of FedEx, CEO Fred Smith took the company’s last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company’s $24,000 fuel bill.
awxWJ TIL that Ziggy Marley recorded the theme song "Believe in Yourself" for the children's show Arthur
PYlyV TIL Since 1835, the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations both have the right to send a non-voting delegate to Congress. They have never done so.