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TIL 5 members of Ernest Hemingway's family committed suicide.

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wj8E TIL the Pentagon has twice as many toilets than it would have had if it were built today, due to being built in a time of segregation
7llr TIL the highest achievable score in a single game of “Jeopardy!” is $566,400.
E1gld TIL that the Slinky was invented by accident, when a Mechanical Engineer was working to devise springs that could keep sensitive ship equipment steady at sea. After accidentally knocking some samples off a shelf, he watched in amazement as they gracefully “walked” down instead of falling.
D190V TIL Mallows Bay, the largest ship graveyard in the Western Hemisphere, is a National Marine Sanctuary due to the reefs the shipwrecks provide.
OoNm6 TIL: The wealth of a samurai in feudal Japan was measured in terms of koku; one koku, supposed to be the amount of rice it took to feed one man for a year, was equivalent to around 180 liters.