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TIL that Stephen King allows filmmakers to license one of his non-contract stories for $1! It's referred as "dollar-babies" .

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BkDL TIL that Aldous Huxley was George Orwell’s French teacher
kOyb7 TIL about Operation Platypus: in 1943, Winston Churchill randomly demanded a live platypus from Australia. The poor platypus (named Winston, of course) was sent across the ocean to Liverpool but died just 4 days before the arrival when the ship got attacked by a U-boat attack.
wLdAJ TIL baseball was mentioned in a Jane Austen novel written about forty years before Albert Spalding claimed the game was invented in America.
l7nNV TIL: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was known as the dog shogun for his protections of dogs. During the his reign Edo became overrun with dogs.
R5kPj TIL that Hisashi Ouchi’s life was barely kept alive for 83 days after a high radiation dose as his skin peeled off and organs failed