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TIL that Tums have different strengths but the bottles all look the same..

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4xGJ TIL that in 2012, a blind woman wrote a book on a notepad with rubberbands wrapped around to indicate lines. Her son read chapters back to her for edits then sent them to typesetters. Once, she gave her son 26 blank pages because the pen lost ink and police helped reform it in a five-month effort.
OGgYX TIL that 160 years ago Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and many more members of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment were killed during the American Civil War, in an attack on confederate stronghold Fort Wagner. They were one of the first African American regiments in the war.
b9OAj TIL "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" was nominated three Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Remake or Sequel, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property
9wZp7 TIL the Japanese term "Kuchi zamishi" is the act of eating when you're not hungry because your mouth is lonely.
N7QaN TIL Steven Spielberg's father, Arnold Spielberg, built a his own ham radio from scraps when he was 15, became an early computer pioneer in the 1950s and recently celebrated his 103rd birthday!