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TIL that 55% of YA readers are actually adults.

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VMxrp TIL that about 50,000 British criminals were "transported" to the American colonies for either 7 or 14 years as punishment in leiu of the death sentence. It ended with the American Revolution. UK jails then became overcrowded until they created the new colony of Australia and the practice restarted
kOLO5 TIL that colour photography has existed as far back as the 1850s
ObE7 TIL Lord Byron’s nickname for his rival, William Wordsworth, was “William Turdsworth”
Z84vv TIL that the Soviet Union tried to suppress Genghis Khan’s memory in Mongolia by removing his story from school textbooks and forbidding people from making pilgrimages to his birthplace
kGdW TIL of the Backfire Effect, in which wrongly held beliefs of people get stronger in the light of contradictory facts and evidence, not the other way around as typically expected.