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TIL Johnny Carson Craved Time Alone So Much His $80 Million Home Had Only 1 Bedroom.

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6ErAl TIL that "The Pocket Book of Boners" (1941), by Dr. Seuss, was one of the best selling books of WWII with over 1.34 million copies in print by 1945. It is a compilation of four books in the Boners Series: "Boners" (1931), "More Boners" (1931), "Still More Boners" (1931), and "Prize Boners" (1932).
W7pNN TIL-Macchu Pichu is a earthquake-proof city. Incans created a brilliant engineering technique called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions.
xVpX0 TIL Doris Day turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honorary Academy Award and Kennedy Center Honors Award because her intense fear of flying made it impossible to accept the awards in person.
xMNk TIL that Harrison Ford’s children’s ages range from 14 to 48 years old.
X0GxP TIL we estimate humans began wearing clothes 70,000 years ago because that's when head lice diverged genetically from body lice.