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TIL that there are over 100 tribes around the world who reject contact with the outside world.

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bPM0 TIL in an interview Dave Grohl was asked “If you could spare one object from your house if it was on fire, what would it be?” Dave replied with “A letter Kurt Cobain gave me in ‘92 that said ‘I love you like a brother.”
9YR4Q TIL that in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pitched a mystery story to an author, about a man trapped in a boring life, who dreams of running off with $5 million and starting over. 6 top mystery writers wrote a chapter each, and the book was published, and even turned into a movie in 1936
Z87Ma TIL that a man robbed a store while Marines were collecting donations outside. The subject was taken to the hospital with broken arms, ankle, leg, ribs, nose, jaw, several missing teeth. Injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb after stabbing a Marine.
gZlW TIL Carl Sagan wanted to include the Beatles “Here Comes the Sun” on the golden record sent into space on the Voyager spacecrafts. The Beatles said yes, EMI said no.
Oo6O7 TIL French author Voltaire wrote over 2000 books & was read by Napoleon, Frederick the Great & Catherine the Great. Upon his death in 1778 Catherine the Great purchased his entire collection & moved it to The Hermitage in Russia.