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TIL Pecans are a type of hickory.

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e0D44 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
OorG4 TIL: Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter entitled "Fart Proudly" as a response to the Royal Academy of Brussels calls for serious scientific papers.
KYyJR TIL Sonic Youth’s highly experimental 2000 album NYC Ghosts & Flowers was the result of the bands irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals being stolen in 1999.
OVa7 TIL that according to the British Film Institute, Fawlty Towers is the best British Television program of all time.
Y7WQx TIL that the 2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks carried out by Mossad was nicknamed Operation Grim Beeper