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TIL John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) actually planted apple trees in prime real estate in an effort to sell the land as new settlers flooded into the midwest.

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Kn54 TIL that R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps, never included things like divorce, drug use, and abuse because he didn’t “really want to terrify kids.” He wanted his stories to be strictly fantasy and kids to know that it couldn’t really happen.
b9lP4 TIL Human echolocation is completely real. Daniel Kish is a blind man that learned to use clicking to ride a bicycle and hike alone. He also teaches other blind children how to echolocate.
R7KK9 TIL During the mid-1800's painters used a pigment called "Mummy Brown" that was actually made from powdered Egyptian mummies.
bYlQ TIL of Shavarsh Karapetyan who was a 17-time world champion finswimmer and heard that a bus crashed in the water. He went in the deep water and rescued 20 people from drowning. After 10 years he rescued more people from a burning hospital. He also carried the torch in the Winter Olympics of 2014.
LkWPr TIL that Saturns’ rings are, cosmically speaking, a very brief event. We are about halfway through their 200 million year lifespan and are very lucky as a species to be alive to witness them. “Some velociraptor with a telescope looking at Saturn would not have seen rings.”