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TIL when it was revealed that Richard Bachman was a pen name used by Stephen King, about the author blurbs on the books said that Bachman died suddenly of “cancer of the pseudonym, a rare form of schizonomia”.

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WLGL TIL that the CEO of Olympus was fired when he discovered that $1.6billion of the company’s money had been paid to the yakuza.
yQdoJ TIL we treat our future selves like another person. When we are asked to think about ourselves, certain parts of our brain light up. When we are asked to think about our future selves, different areas of our brain light up, The same areas we use to think about other people.
xNng TIL: California was building a desalination plant (makes ocean water drinkable) during a 7 year drought but stopped when it started raining again.
YnAA TIL there is a mid-rise shopping center in Zimbabwe which uses an air conditioning system inspired by African termite hills. It is ventilated and cooled by natural means, and uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building its size.
LQMO9 TIL the 'Negro Motorist Green Book' was based on an earlier 'Jewish Vacation Guide' book which outlined places that Jews were not unwelcome to stay in America in 1917.