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TIL that Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day. Both songs are now over 50 years old.

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Z8K4a TIL the quote "God helps those who help themselves" originated from Aesop's Fables, and is mentioned nowhere in The Bible.
rRypo TIL about how you may not actually own the digital content you purchase. Which is bringing to light the issue of digital content being willed to heirs of its deceased owners.
D1Y7g TIL of the most rural post office in the US; the Supai Post Office is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and is serviced by a mule train that takes 2.5 hours to reach it. It services the Havasupai reservation and demonstrates the obligation of the US Postal System to service every community.
oBaRR TIL that during the Vietnam war, tens of thousands of desperate Americans immigrated north to Canada to escape the draft. A political response was never taken, partly because just as many Canadians hopped down south to join the American military.
neJ59 TIL about Buckfast--a wine brewed by some of the last Benedictine monks in Britain, sold as a tonic in UK pharmacies, and known infamously in Scotland as "Wreck the Hoose Juice" where it was associated with >40% of all violent crime there in 2015