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TIL that Shel Silverstein, who many of us know for “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, wrote Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”

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9Ygwm TIL Caucasia is a real place, not just a joke my friends and I make about white people.
XEPb6 TIL about the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab science kit, arguably the most dangerous toy, which included four small jars of uranium
W7NAX TIL in Utah, you have to upload your ID and register your email address in order to watch Pornhub and other adult content sites on your personal devices.
vPB6L TIL there is no scientific evidence that white people originated in the Caucasus, as the term “Caucasian” suggests. Rather, the term was created because Noah’s Ark allegedly settled there, and therefore the first humans were supposedly white.
m1xgP TIL Vincent Van Gogh wanted to be a pastor and didn’t start painting until 1880 when he was 27 years old and his most famous works were done while he was a patient in an asylum a year before his death in 1890, completing nearly 900 oil paintings in just ten years.