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TIL: William H. H. Murray's 1869 book "Adventures in the Wilderness; or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks" was so popular that in a matter of months it caused a "Murray Rush"---where thousands of hunters, fishers, and campers from NY and Boston went to Adirondacks and spurred modern American camping.

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aNO0 TIL that Debra Oberlin, a former president of a defunct chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), was arrested for drunk driving.
YpVMB Today I learned that Michael Bowen (who played Jack, and killed Hank from Breaking Bad) and Dean Norris (Hank) were actually longtime buddies and he (Michael Bowen) had tears in his eyes when he killed Hank in Breaking Bad
J18gk TIL singer-songwriter James Blunt was a captain during and in the aftermath of the Kosovo War in 1999
jwGN TIL during the Nanking Massacre, it is estimated Japanese soldiers raped 20,000 women. They were often killed after being raped, often through explicit mutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina. Young children were cut open to allow them to be raped.
Br4dD TIL that the Hooded Pitohui is one of the first known poisonous birds. Their feathers give off a neurotoxin (homobatrachotoxin) which causes numbness and has previously only been found in the skin of poison dart frogs. It inhabits the rainforests and tropical jungles of New Guinea.