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TIL after his presidency, US Grant lost nearly every cent in a Ponzi scheme. Shortly after, he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Pushing through the pain, and with the help of Mark Twain, Grant penned his autobiography in order to not leave his wife with no financial security.

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9Zdm TIL that Woody Allen has been working on the same typewriter since he was sixteen and all of his films were written on it.
kZQg TIL The United States Select House Committee on Assassinations’ last report concluded that JFK’s assassination was a result of a conspiracy.
pYEnZ TIL that in some parts of Indias and Pakistan, people smoke powdered scorpions to get an opium-like high
78kOr TIL that between 15% and 30% of people have the photic sneeze reflex, which causes those afflicted to sneeze at the sun, sometimes multiple times in a row
M7De8 TIL in 1986 an American woman, Judith Richardson Haimes, who worked as a psychic had an allergic reaction after receiving an iodine tracer injection (for a CAT scan) that allegedly disabled her psychic powers. She sued the hospital and was awarded $600,000 for pain and suffering and loss of income.