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TIL that there are currently 15 different types of power outlets in use around the world.

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LkN7p TIL of Ely S. Parker, a Native American who wrote the final draft of the Confederate Surrender. At the time of surrender, General Lee extended his hand and said, 'I am glad to see one real American here.' Parker shook his hand and said, 'We are all Americans.'
b9koN TIL that to avoid the censure of his father, a railroad worker who disapproved of poets, the teenage writer Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto wrote and published poetry under a pseudonym: Pablo Neruda. He would later legally adopt the name and go on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
VMkd8 TIL during the Korean War, a British soldier led a series of grenade-hurling assaults against waves of Chinese soldiers attacking his post. When he ran out of grenades, he began hurling beer bottles, giving his unit enough time to retreat, and stood his ground until he ran out of things to throw.
jNlMR TIL Mark Twain made a substantial amount of money throughout his career but lost most of it. He lost the equivalent of $9,000,000 on a typesetting machine investment, his publishing company failed after selling only 200 copies of one of his books, & he was forced to sell his house in Connecticut.
PlnL TIL Louisiana has a different legal system than the other 49 states. It is based in French and Spanish Civil Law as opposed to English Common Law.