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TIL L. Ron Hubbard was asked at a science fiction convention about making money as a SciFi writer and his response was “You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”

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wLEpP TIL in the 1820s a Cherokee named Sequoyah, impressed by European written languages, invented a writing system with 85 characters that was considered superior to the English alphabet. The Cherokee syllabary could be learned in a few weeks and by 1825 the majority of Cherokees could read and write.
7ddr TIL The porcupine is the only native North American mammal with antibiotics in its skin. Those antibiotics prevent infection when a porcupine falls out of a tree and is stuck with its own quills
R7XN9 TIL that the little "light" dots that sometimes fly around in your vision are called "blue-sky sprites" and its part of a phenomenon called "Blue Field Entopic Phenomenon" where white blood cells are moving in the capillaries in-front of your retina.
5YQEn TIL of allemansrätten in Sweden (lit. "the everyman's right"). It gives a person the right to access, walk, cycle, ride, ski, and camp on any land—with the exception of private gardens, the immediate vicinity of a dwelling house and land under cultivation.
wLKOP TIL that maple syrup was promoted in the 1800s as a slavery-free alternative to cane sugar: "Suffer not your cup to be sweetened by the blood of slaves."