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5Y90P TIL that J. M. Barrie based the character of Peter Pan on his brother David. The reason Peter always stays the same age is because David drowned the day before his fourteenth birthday, and his family always remembered him as the boy who never grew up.
j61pE TIL spaces between words in documents first appeared in Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles in the seventh century. Paleographers today identify the extinction of 'scriptio continua' as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era.
VMDL4 TIL when Prohibition was enacted in USA, it took less than an hour for the first documented violation of it to happen
R5knj TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina only uses the letters A, E, O, J, K, M and T in its vehicle registration plates because it uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, and these letters are written and pronounced identically in both. The same plates can therefore be used in every region.
5kbB TIL the paramedic who pulled baby Jessica from the well in 1993 suffered PTSD from the event and later committed suicide