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TIL Charles Manson was a “Theta Clear” level Scientologist

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EWZ0 TIL that Joseph Heller, when told by an interviewer that he had “never produced anything else as good as Catch-22,” responded: “Who has?”
Q8l6 TIL that in 1860 an 11-year old girl wrote to Presidential Nominee Abraham Lincoln, urging him to grow a beard, as “..ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for [you] and then [you] would be President.” Lincoln not only wrote back, but had a full beard by his Inauguration.
E8ko TIL Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq, wrote a romance novel.
8arRL TIL that Togo, not Balto, was the real hero in delivering serum to Nome, Alaska.
VM0m8 TIL Roald Dahl's last words were nearly “It’s just that I will miss you all so much,” until a nurse pricked him with a needle and he said “Ow, fuck!” then died.