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TIL Stephen King has written a children’s book using a pseudonym and reviewed it as himself.

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PJpV TIL a Soviet aircraft carrier was sold to a Chinese travel agency to convert it into a hotel and casino. It was all a cover story and the ship is now part of the Chinese navy fleet!
5Vro9 TIL opium was routinely given to infants from ancient times up until the early 1900's.
neEW9 TIL that the theme song from the movie Titanic, Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” was playing in the dining room of the Costa Concordia cruise ship just as she hit an underwater reef, which would eventually lead to her sinking.
6EB1J TIL that the forbidden fruit in the Bible is never defined as an apple. It is in fact a mistranslation that originates from the fact that the tree is defined as as "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" and that in Latin, mălum means evil while the very similar word mālum means apple.
R5Kj6 TIL 35% of whole blood donors become iron-deficient (defined as ferritin levels of below 25 µg/L). Daily iron supplementation (37 mg of iron) for at least 8 weeks after is expected to replenish iron loss from one whole blood donation.