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TIL When the first Alien script was written, all parts were meant to be interchangeable for men or women.

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g4ly TIL Abraham Lincoln once co-owned a pub with a man named William Berry. The duo appropriately named their bar, “Berry and Lincoln”. It opened in Springfield, IL in 1834.
OoPE7 TIL that 14 of the 60 residents of the village of New Rome, Ohio were police officers. The police department's only purpose was issuing traffic tickets, and they brought in around $400,000 a year, mostly by citing drivers for things such as improperly tinted windows. The town was dissolved in 2004.
0d841 TIL that Julia “Butterfly” Hill, an environmental activist, lived in a 1500-year-old California redwood tree named Luna, 180 feet (55 mm) off the ground for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company from chopping it down. Her efforts were successful in saving the tree.
WLn9 TIL that Judge Judy makes more money than David Letterman.
W7pPN TIL That Celiac Disease, Which Requires People to Be Gluten Free, Has Nothing to do With Allergies, But Is Instead an Autoimmune Disease That Can Cause Serious Permanent Damage