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TIL William Faulkner wrote his masterpiece As I Lay Dying in 6 weeks without ever changing a word after it was written

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Y7Mnx TIL of Mrs Chippy, a ship's cat aboard the Endurance during Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. After Shackleton drove the ship into an ice-locked position, stranding everyone on the ice, he ordered the cat and several dogs shot because they were "weak".
VgbZ TIL that Viking “Berserkers” would take hallucinogenic mushrooms to induce their battle rage
Z8NDv TIL the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, where experts will notice all the stupid errors in a news article but still treat the next article as 100% accurate, was invented by the author Michael Crichton who named it after the famous physicist he was talking to at the time to make it sound more scientific.
bGvZ TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses
l7vB7 TIL scientists from Newcastle University discovered that honeybees become 'pessimistic' after being shaken vigorously for 60 seconds.