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TIL that the pledge of allegiance was created by a magazine company to sell more subscriptions

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BgB7D TIL Shakespeare's accent was (probably) closer to American English than British English
nWwGP TIL in the mid-20th century, a researcher wore a pair of hand-engineered goggles that completely inverted his eyesight. Although he "stumbled wildly" at first, after 10 days he had grown so accustomed to his upside-down world that "paradoxically" everything began to appear rightside-up to him again.
R5wG8 Today I learned that most of the famous silver drachma coins of Alexander the Great were made out of captured Persian silver
M7By8 TIL Elwood Edwards was paid $200 in 1989 for recording the iconic phrase "You've Got Mail" for AOL.
oBMYR TIL that "Where's Waldo?" was originally published as "Where's Wally?" in the United Kingdom--"Waldo" is the American adaptation of the series. Additionally, Wally was drawn smaller and smaller and the series continued, making him harder to find in subsequent books.