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TIL Seth Rogen and childhood friend Evan Goldberg began writing the script for the movie Superbad when they were just 13 years old.

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dDke7 TIL the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government was Mary Surratt, conspiring in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
m44E TIL if Walmart and its employees were a country they would be, population-wise, bigger than 95 actual countries and hold the 25th largest economy in the world.
9MZX TIL in 2012 there more deaths in active military due to suicide than war death
JYQwv TIL Alan Turing, WW2 codebreaker and father of modern computer science, was also a world-class distance runner of his time. He ran a 2:46 marathon in 1949 (2:36 won an olympic gold in 1948). His local running club discovered him when he overtook them repeatedly while out running alone for relaxation
9wyJM TIL the statue atop the US Capitol building was going to have a liberty cap (the old Roman symbol of an emancipated slave), but future Confederate President Jefferson Davis made the sculptor remove it.