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TIL When Stephen King published Joyland in 2013, a Canadian author who had earlier published a novel of the same name started receiving royalty checks because of King fans mistakenly buying her book

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epwjE TIL of the La Garita Caldera. A super volcano that had an eruption 5,000 times more energetic than the explosion of the largest bomb ever created by humans, the Tsar Bomba.
16xX7 TIL David Bowie, a tech visionary, launched his own internet service provider called BowieNet in 1998, offering users exclusive content, email addresses, and even web hosting
yQB7X TIL Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is regarded by many as the greatest scientific contribution of all time. Despite its reputation, relatively few readers, including professional scientists and mathematicians, have actually read the Principia
LQbR9 TIL before 2001, on 9/11 four aircraft crashes and 1 disappearance happened in different years, resulting in 221 deaths and 16 missing combined
QdlE TIL an 5400 strong legion of Roman soldiers disappeared in Caledonia, with no records left.