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TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald only received $13 in royalties from ‘The Great Gatsby’ during his lifetime.

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Bg4xL TIL that there is such a thing as a Mountain Chicken. It is not a Chicken. It is, in fact, a kind of frog.
g7G8 TIL time was divided into seconds and minutes and the circle into three hundred sixty degrees by the same society that invented written language and the wheel.
yQ7QM TIL the Air Force recently invented underwear for fighter pilots that automatically detects urine and flushes it into a sack where it freezes the urine for disposal after the flight, solving a major problem of inflight peeing.
ZaZR TIL that an angry crew member during the filming of “Titanic”, spiked their buffet with PCP, and that there were “people just rolling around”. The person who did it was never caught.
16RkP TIL that menopause is when you run out of eggs