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TIL That Eiichiro Oda, the author of One Piece, the best selling manga of all time, wanted to become a manga artist in order to avoid having to get a "real job".

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KLVa TIL of Rat Park. When given the choice between normal water and morphine water, the rats always chose the drugged water and died. When in Rat Park where they had space, friends and games, they rarely took the drug water and never became addicted or overdosed despite many attempts to trick them
yV0nv TIL Abraham Lincoln was a distant cousin to the father-and-son presidents WH and Benjamin Harrison.
b9YN4 TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen never played chess in their life until the movie X-Men required them to do so. A chess master came in to teach them.
ZQrQ TIL The Apple logo has a bite taken out of it simply so that it would not be mistaken for a cherry
xVD67 TIL a dead girl was found in the River Seine in France in the 1880s. The coroner was so infatuated with her that he took a mold of her face. Her face became a morbid fascination and many copies were made. When the first CPR dummy was made, it used her face and has since continued to.