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TIL In June of Year Without Summer (1816), a group of writers had to stay indoors in Switzerland because of “incessant rain”. As a result of a contest to write the scariest story, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Lord Byron wrote A Fragment, a precursor to Dracula

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MekX7 TIL The world's largest family stays in India. The husband has 39 wives and 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.
pY89A TIL in 2009 researchers discovered a bottled message in Auschwitz. The message contained the name & number of seven inmates between 18-20 years old, and the hometowns they were taken from. At the discovery two of the inmates were alive, three had passed away, the fate of the last two is unknown
oBppL TIL that when Apple released the LaserWriter printer in 1985 it had a built-in programming language, its own RAM and used the same CPU as the original Macintosh, but running at a higher speed. Because of this, the LaserWriter printer had the most processing power in Apple's product line at that time