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TIL Before Stephen King’s first novel “Carrie” was accepted for publication, he threw his draft into the trash after becoming discouraged with his progress. However, his wife retrieved the manuscript and encouraged him to finish it.

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VBVvm TIL that a former Kellogg factory worker filmed himself urinating on a cereal conveyor belt at a facility in Memphis, Tennesse, only to upload a video of the incident two years later. Kellogg only learned of the incident after the video was uploaded.
NWbb TIL that there’s a perpetual student named Michael W. Nicholson who has earned 29 degrees
KOXo4 TIL that Homer Simpson correctly predicted the mass of the Higgs boson (the God particle) 14 years before it was discovered.
N7A8E TIL the Shag Rocks were charted by William Scoresby in 1927. They are inhabited mainly by South Georgia shags, a subspecies of the imperial shag.
l677 TIL we frequently abbreviate Christmas as X-mas because of ancient tradition. X is the Greek letter “chi” which is an abbreviation for the word “Christ” in Greek.