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TIL Fred Gwynne [a.k.a. Herman Munster] wrote and illustrated children’s books. He once said the only thing he ever dreamed of being was a portrait artist.

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mxLER TIL that the percussion cap was invented by a Scottish reverend whose guns were too slow for goose and wild game hunting.
Y5Dd TIL that between 1900-1973, over 100 boys died at a Florida reform school for delinquents as a result of sexual and physical abuse, torture, beatings, and even outright murder from staff. The school only recently closed in 2011.
MNGK TIL a UCLA student went to Libya to fight with the rebels for, what he describes as, a ‘sick’ summer break
wLWXJ TIL about the Great Hanging at Gainesville, a confederate war crime where 41 suspected unionists were executed in October of 1862
aPb0 TIL Gandalf carried another lesser ring of power while Frodo sought to destroy the One Ring in “The Lord of the Rings”