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TIL POW Jeremiah Denton blinked out in morose code TORTURE confirming for the first time that americans were being tortured in Vietnam

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wgB1 TIL J. R. R. Tolkien received from a fan a goblet with the Ring inscription on it in Black Speech. Because the Black Speech in general is an accursed language, and the Ring inscription in particular is a vile spell, Tolkien never drank out of it, and used it only as an ashtray.
pYG5A TIL that John Maynard Keynes, from whose work the modern economic system is derived, was a Marxist.
rnKW TIL the inventor of the heart stent approached numerous companies for funding and was rejected. It was funded by the owner of Fuddrucker’s restaurant, whom he met by chance on a golf course.
v4gr TIL that at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, the world was introduced to hot dogs, hamburgers, waffle cones, peanut butter, iced tea, cotton candy, Puffed Wheat cereal and Dr. pepper
Q7Ze TIL there is a town in Mexico where people have a huge fist fight to summon rain.