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TIL that in 2004 the first wolverine sighting was made in Michigan in over 200 years.

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PR0w TIL JK Rowling’s first husband was a 23 year old student who claimed that he was the first to read Harry Potter. Their marriage fell apart less than a year later after he forced her out of the apartment with their baby daughter at 5 in the morning
1A5P TIL it’s only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (ex. FBI).
LQWJ0 TIL of Karel Soucek, who successfully went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and planned a museum about his stunt. To fund it he performed a stunt in which, inside a barrel, he would fall 180 feet from the roof of the Houston Astrodome into a water tank. The barrel hit the rim of the tank, killing him.
KO0rQ TIL the Stanley Hotel, the hotel that served as the inspiration for The Shining, plays the movie adaptation on a continuous loop on channel 42.
Z8MrY TIL of caffeine-induced anxiety disorder where caffeine usage surpassing 200 mg has been shown to increase the likelihood for anxiety and panic attacks.