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TIL Walt Whitman once wrote a novel in three days advocating against drinking while he himself was drunk.

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X0JA6 TIL in 2012 an Oregon woman found a letter from a Chinese labor camp prisoner in a box of Halloween decorations she bought from Kmart. She publicized the letter. The man, who had been released in 2010, saw a news story about it and wrote another letter just for her, thanking her for doing that.
KO5w4 TIL Will smith turned down an offer to go to MIT because he was already successful in entertainment.
GnNN TIL there’s a type of English meatball called a Faggot
jNEWn TIL the 'Indestructrible' Nicholas Alkemade survived an 18K ft fall from crashing bomber in 1944 completely unharmed. After WW2 while working at a chemical plant he survived: a 15 min exposure to chlorine gas, being sprayed with sulphuric acid, and having a 9ft steel pole fall on him.
9Jkr TIL that in 1976 a musical comedy porno of Alice in Wonderland was made in an attempt to make a “high budget” porn film.