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TIL the faces on Mount Rushmore are only 60ft tall.

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KOJRQ TIL Max Brooks, author of World War Z and son of Mel Brooks, is dyslexic. Brooks' mother, Anne Bancroft, put her career on hold to educate her son, making audio cassettes for all his assigned readings. Brooks thanked his mother, saying, "not only did my mother give me my life, she saved my life."
beDQ TIL that Benjamin Franklin didn’t patent any of his invention.
8a0e8 TIL about the real-life Lord of the Flies, i.e. what happened when six teenage boys were shipwrecked on a deserted island for 15 months
N71mM TIL Newton kept an encrypted list of sins in his private diary which was partially decoded only in 1964
NXre8 TIL Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company. They didn’t make their first video game until 1978.