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TIL Emily Dickinson instructed her sister to burn all her letters after her death. Her sister obeyed but discovered 40 notebooks that she received no instruction on. Inside were the poems that gained Dickinson’s posthumous fame today.

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grP5b TIL Colin Farrell was accused of murder in Australia. The thing that got him off was that his friend had a diary entry saying that they done ecstasy together that day - on the opposite side of the city from where the murder took place
NRrQ TIL Chef, Gordon Ramsay, is as passionate about fitness as he is about food. Ramsay has participated in more than a dozen marathons, three ultra-marathons, three half-Ironmans (which span 70.3 miles, swimming, biking and running) and competed in the Ironman World Championship twice.
RGN6 TIL Johnny Knoxville is the result of “significant inbreeding”. This was discovered by a genealogist he himself hired.
E0lW TIL the President of Ecuador offered to let the US keep an airbase in his country, but only if Ecuador could have a base in Miami.
4kg1J TIL about Martha Cothren, winner of the 2006 Veteran of Foreign Wars Teacher of The Year.