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TIL that Harper Lee’s friends gave her a full year’s salary for Christmas in 1956 so that she would be able to take a year off from work to write. Lee used that time to write “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which has since sold over 40 million copies.

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4xON TIL: A cat’s purr at 26 hertz promotes tissue regeneration and influenced the US space program
9aa7 TIL of the Carolina Parakeet, a neotropical parrot that was native to much of the United States up until they were driven extinct by deforestation, hunting, and possibly disease in 1910. They lived in huge flocks of up to 300 birds and were likely poisonous to eat.
N7Ede TIL Rick Kirkham of Tiger King fame conducted high profile interviews about drug abuse while secretly being high on crack
VMbvB TIL that there was a long running hoax during World War II that Adolf Hitler was the inventor of the sex dolls. It was deemed as the "Borghild Project" and was "aimed at combating the spread of syphilis among Nazi troops by supplying the men with sex dolls."
we87 TIL A koi fish, named “Hanako”, was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.