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TIL The Pentagon is the world's largest office building

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O8AY TIL Doctor Seuss’s first book took 27 publisher rejections before it finally found a taker, Chicken Soup for the Soul was passed on by over 100, A Time to Kill by 26, and George Orwell was told Animal Farm would never sell because “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.”
78kML TIL Mae Louise Miller, was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961
awnVo TIL after finishing a match, The Rock ran into a 4'5" wrestler named Hornswoggle and told him “Did you have a good time tonight buddy?”, thinking he was a Make-A-Wish Kid
8e4aG TIL there is still a WW2 veteran who is a serving in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Anthony Christopher joined the Royal Air Force in 1944, he started serving in parliament in 1998, and celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year.
Kal6 TIL the creator of Beetlejuice was an acclaimed Southern Gothic horror novelist who died of AIDS before he could finish his final novel. Tabitha King (Stephen King’s wife) finished it for him.