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TIL that in 1956, an overnight DJ asked his audience to go to bookstores and ask for a non-existent book called "I, Libertine". Eventually, the book made it to the NYT bestseller list.

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M7JKK TIL the chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus
Lk7Kr TIL there is popular dance at Irish weddings/parties that is played to Rock the Boat by the Hues Corporation.
wg91 TIL Robert Kennedy took up a paper route as a young boy. However, he had the family chauffeur driving him, so that he could make his deliveries in a Rolls-Royce.
ZQEo TIL One of the political parties in Switzerland is called the ‘Anti-Powerpoint Party’. Its singular aim is to prohibit the use of Powerpoint in office presentations.
d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.