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TIL The Count of Monte Cristo has never been out of print in most modern languages

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ZpZrY TIL After Peter Zhu was declared brain dead at 21, his parents immediately asked permission to have his sperm extracted to ensure male offspring for the family. The Supreme Court agreed, even though bioethicists argued that the request was never even made by a spouse
X0PrE TIL that the reason that Mr. Rogers told viewer that he was feeding his fish as he was doing so was because a five-year-old fan who is blind was concerned that he wasn't, so he wanted to put her mind at ease.
OYwY TIL Ross Perot is “the biggest individual loser ever on the New York Stock Exchange”: in April 1970, he lost $450 million in a single day.
jNaoQ TIL Teddy Roosevelt's son fought in WWI as a pilot, he was killed in a dogfight and his plane crashed behind the enemy lines, the germans gave him a full military burial with honor. Reportedly, they admired that a president's son chose to fight.
1aRpX TIL Many University Athletes Read at an 8th Grade Level and the NCAA Systematically Hides This