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TIL that the contract used in The Hobbit is a fully-functioning legal document.

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kJPwd TIL that in the 1970's an inventor called Harold Bates converted a car to run on chicken manure
G0GE TIL that despite constituting less than 0.1% of the prison population, the Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for 18-25% of prison murders.
epWA4 TIL that the opossum gives birth to 16-20 (often more) babies, only 12-13 days after mating – the shortest gestation period of any North American mammal.
8el8L TIL: John Michell in 1783, published a paper speculating the existence of black holes, and was forgotten until the 1970s
6EGWJ TIL most of the Founding Fathers were likely Deists and not Christians, but saw organized religion as a useful tool for governing the masses