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TIL Gail Brewer Giorgio, whose 1978 novel "Orion" was about a singer who faked his own death. Her novel was compared to Elvis Presley theories and recalled. The rest of her career was spent writing books questioning if Elvis was really dead, appearing on talk shows and having a 900 number about it.

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woEL7 TIL That according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left Antarctica for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.
GA1xj TIL Napoleon's invasion of Syria was stopped by the defensive work of Antoine Le Picard de Phélippeaux, a former classmate of Napoleon. Phélippeaux was a royalist working on behalf of British/Ottomans at Acre where he rebuilt the defenses. Napoleon failed to seize Acre and gave up the campaign.
wLaXW TIL that spaghetto is the singular version of spaghetti. Gnoccho is for gnocchi, fettuccino is for fettuccini, and raviolo is for ravioli. Also the e at the end of calzone isn’t silent.
9Y4dp TIL technical and commercial divers will breathe a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, and helium known as trimix. Some of the nitrogen in air is replaced with helium to reduce the narcotic effect of breathing nitrogen under pressure, allowing them to dive deeper while maintaining a clear head.
9wZnp TIL during the 17th and 18th centuries English capitalized all nouns (as in Gulliver's Travels, and most of the original 1787 United States Constitution) similar to the German language of today