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

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9egm TIL that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime
g6k7 TIL that a man once rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out the baby was his.
78aDM TIL President John Adams son Charles died of alcoholism at 30 years old while he was president
OGa1g TIL There are actually multiple definitions of 'real'. In 1972, Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicists, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect showed that the 'local realism' view of the universe is likely to be false. Meaning: the world exists only when you're looking at it.
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