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eJYb TIL that Stephen King novels “IT” and “The Shining” are set in the same universe, the character Dick Hallorann that is the head chef of the Overlook hotel in The Shining, very briefly appears as a character in IT.
W149 TIL that a morbidly obese Houston man managed to sneak a pistol into a jail by hiding it in his fat folds, before admitting it to the police many hours later.
PYWDV [TIL] William Chester Minor cut off his penis and contributed a lot to the Oxford English Dictionary.
kdjW TIL that the two spellings of blond(e) are actually gender variants, and that it is one of the few English adjectives to retain a masculine and feminine form.
krQB TIL that in Dublin, Irish Car Bomb cocktail is known as a “Nine-Eleven” as Americans often order it without thinking of the offense it can cause.