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TIL that the photographer who took the famous ‘The vulture and the girl’ photograph in 1993 later on committed suicide in 1994, the same year he received a Pulitzer prize for the disturbing image.

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dD84Q TIL Jacqueline Susann became the first writer in publishing history to have three consecutive #1 novels on the New York Times Best Seller list. The first being "Valley of the Dolls" 1966, then "The Love Machine" 1969, followed by "Once Is Not Enough" 1973.
wLJgJ TIL the US has 727M barrels of oil hidden in underground salt caverns
N9BP TIL that if our solar system out to Neptune were the size of a US quarter, the Milky Way would be approximately the size of the continental United States.
dDEp7 TIL about shotgun houses - narrow rectangular houses about 12 feet wide that were popular in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War through the 1920s.
W766d TIL with the names on the Stanley Cup being engraved by hand, there are roughly 16 spelling mistakes on it. While some of the misspellings have been corrected, others remain.