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TIL that the song "Boy Named Sue" made popular by Johnny Cash was actually written by Shel Silverstein.

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7rx0p TIL that only 4 out of 10 households have completed their Census form.
vPPPR TIL that Charrúa people were the indigenous people of Uruguay and the surrounding areas. In 1831 the first president of Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera, organized a campaign to eradicate the Charrúas. They are now considered ethnically extinct.
780LO TIL that in 2009, David Reynolds completed a model oil rig which he made out of four million matches. It took him 15 years.
MenpW TIL besides the Illiad and the Oddyssey there were at least six more ancient Greek poems related to the Trojan War, collectivelly known as the "Epic Cycle", but only some fragments of them have survived to the present.
Y7yaP TIL of Tanis, a dinosaur fossil site in North Dakota. Although controversial over its private management by paleontologist Robert DePalma, it's regardless noteworthy for preserving in detail the immediate aftermath of the extinction-causing asteroid impact on dinosaurs in the area.