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TIL Stephen King’s lawyers had to buy the van that hit King in 1999 to keep it from appearing on eBay.

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K76G TIL A photon spends 40,000 years getting from the core of the Sun to the surface, but then only 8 minutes to get to Earth.
OG841 TIL Fanny Hill published in 1748 is considered is a pornographic book and one of the first porn novels ever written and is one of the most banned books in history. It has no explicit references to body parts but uses euphemisms instead e.g. nethermouth rather than vagina.
VMklk TIL the Molotov Cocktail was not invented by Russians, but instead by under-supplied Finns who used them as improvised anti-tank weapons against the USSR in the Winter War. The famous Finnish alcoholic beverage company ALKO actually switched to mass producing Molotov Cocktails during the war.
1a8yD TIL that the color of a bread tie represents which day of the week it was baked on.
QJMlp TIL of the “Coffin Torpedo”—a small shotgun secured inside the lid of a coffin to “prevent the unauthorized resurrection of the dead.” The shotgun fired lead balls at whoever pried the lid open and were used as an experimental deterrent to the rising tide of body snatchers in the late 1800s.