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TIL that Izzy Stradlin is the only member of the Guns ‘n’ Roses original lineup to gain a high school diploma

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JYPxQ TIL Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was having an affair so she followed him to a dimly lit basement and burst into the room only to find him and his friends hunched over hand-drawn maps. Gary would go on to invent the role-playing game "Dungeons and Dragons".
1a6XW TIL the United States Treasury used to print 5 denominations of money larger than $100. They were used mostly as government transactions, and were all discontinued in 1969. It is illegal to be in posession of a $100,000 bill, a Gold Certificate, due to Executive Order 6102.
bGvZ TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses
xj7B TIL that MiraLAX contains an industrial-strength anti-fungicide, insecticide, and germicide strong enough to preserve wood beams, railroad ties, and electrical poles and is pretty nasty for your CNS.
EQQo TIL The Gospel of Judas claims the other disciples had not learned the true Gospel, which Jesus taught only to Judas… also suggests that Christ planned the course of events which led to his death and Judas was simply obedient in assisting the suicide by government.