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TIL that the inventor of the Popsicle was just an 11-year old kid.

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W71N4 TIL about Jørgensen's law: in ancient Greek poetry, characters are usually unaware of the specific actions of the gods, unlike the audience, and thus tend to attribute miracles to "the gods" or "a daimon" or "Zeus."
69NZW TIL - in 1976, Claude LeLouch made a short film by driving his sports car like a maniac through the streets of Paris. He did this secretly without asking for the streets to be blocked off
MejNV TIL about hypnagogia, the transition between wakefulness and sleep during which many hallucinations can occur, including the sensation of being bigger/smaller than yourself, floating, or falling.
E1gnX TIL William Kamkwamba, after being forced to quit school at 14 due to poverty, taught himself to build windmills out of trash, using books from a local library, transformed his village with electricity and became an international celebrity. Receiving a scholarship to Dartmouth and graduating in 2014
KYjRw TIL about Anne Green, who was sentenced to death by hanging over the murder of her stillborn child, revived back to life by blowing smoke up her butt and placing her in bed with another woman, recovered completely, and was pardoned.