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TIL there’s a foundation that takes unwanted and lost diaries.

Read more thegreatdiaryproject.co.uk

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0wk95 TIL Heath Ledger created a character diary for the Joker. It included stills from A Clockwork Orange, photos of hyenas, unhinged clown makeup and the word "chaos" highlighted in green. It also contained things the Joker would find funny like AIDS, landmines, and geniuses suffering brain damage.
Mepk7 TIL about the Great Papago Escape where twenty-five Germans successfully tunneled out of an Arizona POW camp near Phoenix. They built a raft, hoping to float their way down the Salt River, and eventually into the Gulf of California. Their plan failed when they learned the river was mostly dry.
j56a TIL that Edgar Allan Poe is considered to have invented the first fictional detective.
b4gj TIL: Sesame Street reviewed exactly 45 years ago today quoted a professor saying it could flop because it wasn’t “structured” teaching. (PDF)
VEek TIL that in ‘The X-Files’, aliens begin their colonization of Earth on December 22nd, 2012.