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TIL The Author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad filed for bankruptcy.

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nel0W TIL: Jack Daniel, famous whiskey distiller, died due to complications from gangrene after kicking his safe when he couldn’t remember the combination.
6EwKW TIL: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, designed by the “Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons,” so isolated prisoners that many went insane. (The 1829 castle-like complex did have better comforts than period prisons --like dependable heat. Shut: 1971, ruin-park since '94.)
pYZmQ TIL that the island of Ocracoke, North Carolina was the location where the pirate Blackbeard died on November 1718.
DQNAV TIL that Kim Walker, who played Heather Chandler in the 1989 film Heathers in which she famously asked “Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” died of a brain tumor in 2001.
V1rm TIL 7 of America’s 10 most affluent counties surround Washington D.C.