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TIL Stephen King wrote The Running Man in a single week. This is in contrast to his normal 2,000-word or 10-page daily output, so that writing a novel normally takes him approximately 3 months.

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JYJ6l TIL that Korean-American Andrew Lee from California was inaugurated as Crown Prince in early 2018 by King Yi Seok, the nominal emperor of the Joseon Dynasty. He is the successor to the throne of his ancestor King Sejong, who created the Korean alphabet, Hangul.
kJVb1 TIL Taoism merged with Zen Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto to create Japan’s philosophy that wasn’t a philosophy: bushido. The version of bushido that dominates include honor, ritual suicide, and self-sacrifice
XE816 TIL that the famous lawsuit in which a lady sued McDonald‘s after her coffee was actually justified. McDonald‘s served coffee far beyond industry norm (180-190°F), causing third degree burns on her thighs, 8 days of hospitalization, and skin surgery.
VOMZ TIL Queen Elizabeth ordered an archbishop to take out a tooth of his own not once but TWICE just to prove the procedure of extracting a tooth was safe and bearable.
6Egyw TIL while filming ‘Blade: Trinity,’ Wesley Snipes became so fed up with the film’s production being hindered by studio interference that he locked himself in his trailer, smoked weed, choked the director, and only communicated through post-it notes which he would sign “Blade.”