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TIL that Mark Twain repaid his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal obligation to do so. “I am not a business man; and honor is a harder master than the law. It cannot compromise for less than a hundred cents on the dollar, and its debts never outlaw.”

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awjab TIL that "the day the music died" in the song American Pie is the literal day when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash.
x6mrw TIL a motorcyclist survived after getting knocked out when a pigeon smashed through his helmet visor & caused him to accelerate from 50mph to 140mph while unconscious. He remained on the bike for 200 more yards before he hit a tree. He had 2 skull fractures with bleeding to his brain & a broken leg.
78BmL TIL 75% of all the royal families in European history are related to the Capetian dynasty, who ruled France from 987-1792 and 1814-1848 (with a brief interruption in 1815).
mYex TIL that in 2005, PETA was putting shelter bound animals to sleep in their van before throwing them in the dumpster. Their response was that the animals they killed were “unadoptable” however most of them never even got the chance.
VML4G TIL Star Wars Episode I: Racer holds the Guinness record as the best-selling sci-fi racing game, having worldwide sales of 3.12 million and beating other series like Wipeout and F-Zero. The team had to develop their physics simulation in the game from only a few short clips of the film given to them