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TIL Author Joe Hill was so determined to keep it a secret that he was Stephen King’s son, his own agent didn’t know for 10 years.

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vd7K TIL There is a Japanese arcade game where in response to irritating events you hit a physical table and then flip it when the time is right.
v8A4 TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan
Ypdxx TIL of the 1862 explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal, where almost all of the 78 workers that died from the massive set of explosions, were girls and young women, who replaced young boys/men who flouted common-sense safety precautions.
XE0Ar TIL about the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) which employs 17,000 that’s responsible for registration and monitoring sensitive government databases of all the national citizens of Pakistan.
d8AaZ TIL that President John F. Kennedy secured for himself 1,200 Cuban cigars just hours before enacting the Cuban trade embargo in 1962.