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TIL that S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, received a D in creative writing during the school year that she penned her classic novel.

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6ERVY TIL that Tom Cruise's character in "The Last Samurai" was based on a real Frenchman who fought alongside the warriors of a doomed "samurai democracy" in 1869
opwK TIL that Abraham Lincoln once said, “Women are the only things that cannot hurt me that I am afraid of.”
6EeaX TIL Greek statues have small penises because small penises were more culturally valued and large penises were associated with very specific characteristics: foolishness, lust and ugliness.
7rmrZ TIL The first known evidence of the use of cryptography (in some form) was found in an inscription carved around 1900 BC, in the main chamber of the tomb of the nobleman Khnumhotep II, in Egypt. The scribe used some unusual hieroglyphic symbols here and there in place of more ordinary ones.
AjEl TIL that per mile traveled, the number of deaths on motorcycles is 27 times the number in cars.