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TIL Edgar Allen Poe was inspired to write his famous poem 'The Raven' by an actual, taxidermized raven that was once owned by Charles Dickens. it is now on display in the the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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MeGQV TIL Paul Cuffe was born the son of a freed black man and a Native American woman who built his own ship, captained a lucrative whaling business, and snuck supplies through British blockades became the richest man in the city of Westport.
RAV6 TIL Spotify has a CPR playlist. All the songs on the playlist have a tempo of 100 to 120 bpm, which is the same tempo at which one should give chest compressions during CPR. Coincidently, two of the songs are: “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen and “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees.
7rMR7 TIL: Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
wolG1 TIL a man named Max Herve-George has an insurance policy that lets him trade stocks based on last week's prices. It was known as the stupidest contract ever signed.
ppEO TIL it would cost $100 trillion to buy a 1 Yottabyte hard drive, the world’s GDP is about $61 Trillion