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TIL that when he was thirty years old, Mark Twain wrote an illustrated children’s book called “Advice to Little Girls”. Lost and unknown for generations, it has been rediscovered. It is a charming and irreverent little book.

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MemKm TIL that Tibet is full of oil and gas resources.
omVR TIL on July 17, 1938, Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan entered aviation infamy and gained his nickname when he “accidentally” flew from New York to California but ended up in Ireland after being denied permission to cross the Atlantic by authorities.
57YP TIL: The salary of the President of the United States is actually at an all-time low, if adjusted for inflation
oByAY TIL with the US entry into WWI, German nationals were automatically classified "enemy aliens." Some 250,000 people in that category were required to register and carry registration cards. A total of 2,048 were incarcerated for the remainder of the war in two camps in Utah and Georgia.
Br0NL TIL children's poet Shel Silverstein wrote many outlaw country songs, such as A Boy Named Sue.