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TIL that F.Scott Fitzerald died destitute and being a severe addict (mostly alcohol) and his main novel was never a bestseller

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4XYXa TIL 20 years ago, Chris Evans got his first big break in Hollywood by starring in Not Another Teen Movie, in which he wore a whipped cream bikini and stuck a banana up his butt
lymK TIL that in 1893 Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced the queen to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union.
ZXjo TIL there is a man who, due to auto-brewery syndrome, will get drunk from eating bread
QlNd TIL that Mormon holy books were written in faux-King James English (eg thou goeth) - the language of Bibles from Joseph Smith’s time - and contain extensive grammatical errors (eg subj-verb disagreement), suggesting that Smith was trying to make his writing sound superficially “more Biblical”
d0dK TIL the Count of Monte Cristo was likely based on the true story of a man who was wrongfully imprisoned by his friends, found a hidden treasure whose whereabouts were told to him by a dying priest, and later returned to Paris under a false name to exact vengeance on his accusers