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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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WwMX TIL that British prisoners of war during WW2 were a huge morale drain on the German people. And often they’d get their captors arrested by filing fallacious complaints about their treatment in the camps.
JYe9v TIL that the carcasses used in Forged in Fire are donated to a wolf sanctuary (or, in the case of fish, taken home and eaten).
wLZx8 TIL that George Wallace, the governor who tried to stop two black students from attending the University of Alabama, became a born-again Christian in the late 70s, rebuked his support for segregation, and when reelected in the 80s, made a record number of black appointees to state positions.
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