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TIL It’s illegal to whistle in Petrolia, Ontario
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TIL that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1826)
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TIL Salvador Dalí’s brother died nine months before the artist was born. When Dalí was 5 years old, his parents took him to his brother’s grave and told him that he was his brother’s reincarnation. Salvador believed it and incorporated this idea into his future paintings.
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TIL George Orwell was painfully dying of tuberculosis when he wrote 1984, and he died very shortly after he handed it in to his publisher.
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TIL the “wall follower” is the best-known rule for solving mazes. If the maze is “simply connected”, that is all its walls are connected together or to the maze’s outer boundary, then by keeping one hand in contact with one wall of the maze the solver is guaranteed not to get lost.
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TIL that the album "Jazz from Hell" by Frank Zappa was sold with a "Parental Advisory" sticker despite being completetly instrumental.