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TIL that the very last Peanuts comic strip, in which creator Charles Schultz ended the story of Charlie Brown and said farewell to his fans, was drawn by Schultz in November of 1999. He would die in his sleep three months later — the night before the final comic was published.

4JYN TIL: A blonde, blue eyed Frenchman convinced 18th-C London that he was from Taiwan. He wrote a best-selling book about his “homeland” filled with bizarre facts, including a fake alphabet and language. He became the most famous “Asian” in England. In other words, the greatest troll of the 1700s.
4Xjpg TIL in 2013 the IRS was audited for spending $49 million in parties over 3 years, as well as a Star Trek parody video
ADneo TIL that in February 1970, an amateur photographer was taking photos around an airport in Sydney, Australia. It was only after the film was developed that he realized he captured a stowaway's final moments as he fell out of the wheel well of a plane taking off and fell 56 meters to his death.
4X4LX TIL that during the final stages of freezing to death, you may feel very overheated and take off your clothes before "terminal burrowing", which is also known as "hide-and-die syndrome".
78bLP TIL when Robert Atkins published "Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution" in 1972, his diet was labelled a fad, which implies something new-fangled. But low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets had been popular for over a century before that & were a method of weight loss endorsed by mainstream science until the 1960s