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TIL Mark Twain wrote an essay from the perspective of Satan composing a series of letters about Earth. Link to the full text is at the bottom of the Wikipedia page.

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RBVj TIL 1 in 5 inmates in US jail are mentally ill
g0nD TIL the last person found guilty of witchcraft in England was Helen Duncan in 1944. She was famous for using papier mache dolls as ‘spirits’ and fake ectoplasm made of cheesecloth
b1Op TIL Norm Macdonald was at the last question on Do you want to be a millionare for charity. After he answered the last question, which was right, Regis Philbin kept saying “are you sure” so many times that Norm passed. This ended with 500.000 going to charity instead of 1.000.000.
Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
oWbW TIL “Wet houses”–permanent supportive housing where formerly homeless, chronic alcoholics are allowed to drink and live–saved Seattle over $4 million in the first year and continually saves lives