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TIL Agatha Christie has outsold Stephen King and J.K Rowling combined by about 2 billion books.

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8DMG TIL Ulysses S. Grant’s administration was plagued with corruption and scandal due to nepotism, favoritism, and the unprecedented way he ran his cabinet resulting in Black Friday (1869) and Whiskey Ring (1875)
XEjDD TIL John Lennon invited Yoko Ono to visit when his wife was away on holiday. When she returned, Ono was wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon, who simply said, "Oh, hi."
PnV TIL Truth serum is real and considered torture
M7BkW TIL that people who stutter (or stammer) often lose that stutter when they sing. Some famous singers that used to, or still, stutter include Bill Withers, Carly Simon, Noel Gallagher, Mel Tillis, Ed Sheeran, Kendrick Lamar, John Lee Hooker, and Elvis Presley
51x8 TIL the US spent an estimated 50,000 rounds of M-16 ammo per enemy kill during the Vietnam War.