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TIL the author Beverly Cleary is still alive.. and she's 104
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TIL Abraham Lincoln dressed up as a Scottish immigrant in order to escape an assassination attempt on his way into Washington for his Inauguration.
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TIL The Great Pyramid of Giza actually has 8 sides. It can only be seen from above, when the sunlight hits at the right angle, and was discovered by accident in 1940 by an RAF pilot flying overhead.
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TIL that a human would have to run ~45mph to run on water.
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TIL of Tiberius Claudius Drusus, the son of Roman Emperor Claudius who was choked by a pear. Claudius Drusus was playing and tossed a pear high in the air. When it came back, he caught it in his mouth but he choked on it. He died of asphyxiation.
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TIL modern capital letters are characterized by straight lines and supple curves to make them easier to carve into stone. Lower case letters were only used for everyday writing and weren't originally used in conjunction with upper case.