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TIL Dolly Parton created the Imagination Library, which sends one free book per month to a child, to boost literacy and foster a love of reading. Founded to serve her native Sevier County TN, it now ships over a million books a month to kids in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

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5lMk TIL that in 1959 a psychiatrist placed 3 patients all convinced they were Jesus on the same ward for 2 years.
LQlW9 TIL chlorinated water has no smell. The 'pool smell' is actually chlorine combined with urine. The stronger the pool smell, the more urine in the pool.
grAxD TIL in Satyajit Ray's first film Pather Panchali (1955), after taking first shot of the famous train scene, Ray returned next Sunday to shoot further only to discover that the Kaash flowers had been eaten up by a herd of cattle. He had to wait for the next season of flowers to complete the scene.
Bggjy TIL: The smell of rotten eggs from natural gas is added to identify it, natural gas is inherently odorless.
4koLg TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!