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BrpbD TIL that Mark Twain hated Jane Austen's books and summarized his opinion of her by saying "every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin bone!”
d8lAr TIL 1967 Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident - On 16 March 1967, a red-hued UFO singlehandedly disabled and cut off radio communications of the entire Malmstrom AFB filled with Minuteman Nuclear ICBMs.
pY69Q Today I Learned that your fingernails and toenails can grow at different speeds depending on which hand is your dominant hand, and a whole bunch of other factors.
W7JLX TIL slaves brought to America on 1859 in the Clotilda founded after the Civil War the city of Africatown, Alabama, retaining their West African culture until the 1950s
v14kj TIL about invasive North American earth worms. All areas of North America that were covered in ice in the last ice age were devoid of worms before European colonization. If you've even encountered an earth worm north of the 45th parallel, it's almost guaranteed to be an Asian or European species.