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TIL that Horatio Alger, whose aspirational and highly popular stories usually featured a poor boy being taken under the wing of an older man, was charged with "the abominable and revolting crime of gross familiarity with boys" as a young minister. He did not contest the charges and left town.

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Y7VaW TIL that the Giotto spacecraft, whose aim was to study Halley's comet as it passed close to Earth in 1986, takes its name from the Italian painter Giotto di Bondone, who in 1305 depicted the star of Bethlehem as a comet in painting his Adoration of the Magi. Halley passed close to Earth in 1301.
gMl67 TIL Every fourth generation of Monarch Butterflies lives 8 times longer than the previous generations and travels 10 times farther during migration.
oB1dL TIL A man shaved his beard on Tinder to see how his results would change. The beard profile received more matches (64 out of 94) and generally received twice as many matches from white women as the non-beard profile. More Asian women preferred non beard
MeRa0 TIL at 23 River Phoenix died of a drug overdose outside a club owned by Johnny Depp in front of brother Joaquin and sister Rain Phoenix. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were performing and when he heard, good friend Flea jumped off stage during a song to run outside
JYXQl TIL that, compared to other dog breeds, pit bull terriers "inflict more complex wounds" due to the shape of their mouth and teeth, which is what makes their bites more difficult to treat.