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TIL that Stephen King originally tossed his manuscript for “Carrie” while living in a trailer home with his wife, claiming it was a “loser”. His wife, Tabitha, upon finding it in the garbage and reading it, convinced him to finish it and send it in. It’s the novel that made him famous.

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djYr TIL The highest quality software ever written was the code for the space shuttle, with 1 error for every 420,000 lines of code.
Wk5Y8 TIL not only was Sterling Holloway Jr. the voice actor of the snake Kaa in the 1967 “The Jungle Book” and the Cheshire Cat in the 1951 “Alice in Wonderland”, but most famously he was the original voice of Pooh from “Winnie the Pooh”.
5VlMP TIL the brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, was important to both Egyptians and Polynesians, serving as a predictor of the Nile’s upcoming flood season and a key point for navigating the South Pacific islands
W778L TIL in 1970, Sean Flynn, son of actor Errol Flynn, disappeared in Cambodia while working as a photojournalist during the Vietnam War. While leaving the country’s capital, he set off on his motorbike for a press conference in Saigon. He were never seen again, and in 1984, Flynn was declared dead.
VMW9p TIL of Trish Vickers, a blind author who wrote 26 pages of her first novel without realising her pen had run out of ink. The local police force used their forensic lab to find the missing words, and the book was published on the day of her death.