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TIL that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was originally titled “Something That Happened”

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8L48 TIL shooting point blank mean shooting in a range where you don’t have to account for gravity
6EpB7 TIL Tapatio hot sauce is actually American and is exported from the U.S. to Mexico.
oBdoK TIL that the Memory of Mankind has buried modern 'clay tablets' preserving the most important modern knowledge beneath a salt mine in Austria for future generations with clues to decipher them
R519 TIL in Japan, it is so common for people to die alone undiscovered for long periods, that they have a term for it, “Kodokushi”. “Their bodies lie in places undiscovered for long periods of time, and because of this, thick, dark stains shaped like a human body are left where their bodies once lay.”
Oorag TIL In 1942 some scientists theorized that detonating a nuclear bomb could produce such intense heat that it would cause a chain reaction which would set the atmosphere itself on fire, killing all life on Earth.