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TIL of John Corcoran, a teacher who taught for 17 years while being illiterate. He struggled in the 6th grade and never learned to read or write, and cheated his way through college. At the age of 47, he finally learned when he was inspired by Barbara Bush advocating for adult literacy.

PYxg TIL A Male tortoise weighing 550 lb named Adwaita (Meaning one and only) was born in 1750 and died in 2006.
Wyd8 TIL asparagus is a scientifically proven hangover cure
vLDr TIL the man who discovered Pluto had his ashes placed inside the New Horizons space craft that just passed Pluto
717 TIL that 99% of Estonians have blue eyes.
oRvVY TIL that the US military controls 22.4% of all the land in O'ahu, Hawaii (85,718 acres out of 382,148 acres)