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TIL Veronica Roth, author of the 'Divergent' trilogy, wrote her 1st book in her senior year at Northwestern University. Her career took off with the publishing rights sold before she even graduated college & the film rights sold before the novels were even printed.

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VMalQ TIL Sigmund Freud considered believing in a single god to be a delusion. He also stated that religion "comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion".
o0rA TIL that the Pope can appoint secret cardinals, and even the selected individual may not know he has cardinal status. The name can be made public at any time, but if the pope dies before revealing the name of a secret cardinal, the individual will no longer be a cardinal.
OJ6a TIL that when the screenwriter of Hotel Rwanda called the Rwandan embassy in Washington to get some information, the woman who picked up the phone actually turned out to be a one of the survivors who stayed at the hotel during the Rwandan Genocide.
OoaV6 TIL that despite having a population of 220 million, Pakistan hasn't won any Olympic medal since 1992.
W7MW4 TIL that during puberty more melanin is released by certain cells, causing the penis and nipples to get darker than the other parts of the body.