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TIL That Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde while on a 6 day cocaine binge.

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YpODG TIL of Heinz Drossel, a German soldier who married the first Jew he rescued in WWII; a woman he stopped from committing suicide. Risking execution, he sheltered her in his apartment before giving her money to find a safer place to stay. Heinz went on to rescue more Jews.
9Y0a7 TIL Jeffrey Skilling - the CEO mastermind of the Enron scandal - is now a free man and plans to start another energy company with his former colleagues.
dldr TIL 30% of the air pollution in California is from Asia
WkWl4 TIL the concept of private property was unknown to ancient Hawaiians. Instead they had "ahupua'a", a belief system that connected spirituality into the natural landscape. It emphasized the interrelationship of elements and beings and honored them in the activities of daily and seasonal life.
x41 TIL that the length of time from when Frodo first gets the ring to when he actually sets out on his adventure is 17 years, not a few weeks like the movie makes it seem.