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TIL that authorship of the Christian poem “Footprints” is contested, is claimed by at least a dozen people, and has been the subject of lawsuits.

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R5w1j TIL that the Vietnamese version of Cinderella, the end has Ciderella boil her stepsister to death, turns what remains of her into sauce and sends it to her stepmother to eat. She enjoyed it so much that she ate it all until she found the skull and died of shock.
L7nP TIL There’s a 300-page book called ‘A Void’ that was written without ever using the letter “e”. The original is French but there are over a dozen versions in different languages written by translators who also managed to compose them without using the most common letter of the alphabet.
KdoE TIL that Native Canadians were forcibly taken from their homes to attend cultural Reform Schools from 1840–1960. The last school closed in 1996.
DBr TIL 200,000 users signed up for AOL Dial-up internet access in 2011
0wbAy TIL of a foster father that only takes in terminally ill children