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TIL that the author of the poem “Do not go gently into that good night” died at the mere age of 39. His poem is used frequently in modern pop culture, including the films “Independence Day” and “Interstellar,” and inspired a book George R.R. Martin penned in the 70s.

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rRRNW TIL that George Washington had a copy of the Bill of Rights created for each state. North Carolina’s copy was stolen in 1865 by a Union Soldier. It was recovered in 2003 by a FBI sting operation.
Me5PK TIL the solution to the world's largest math problem, calculated in 2016 using a supercomputer, takes up 200 TB of text (equal to the entire content of the world’s largest library). The award for solving the problem, posed in the 1980s, was $100, and was given to the three researchers who solved it
ZKXo TIL There are over 190 million less women in the world because of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide
oBRRA TIL the United States originally planned to build a canal through Nicaragua before taking over the French canal project in Panama
Meoa7 TIL Titanium was in such short supply, that when Lockheed built the A-12 and later SR-71, the CIA had to set up dummy companies to buy the raw materials from the Soviet Union.