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TIL when Les Miserables was published in England, Hugo telegraphed his English publishers a one-character query: "?". They replied: "!".

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OGgZY TIL about Captagon, an illegal drug primarily produced in Syria and shipped to the Gulf states. The scale of the Captagon market is estimated by some to be three times the combined trade of the Mexican cartels.
a8DAo TIL fish aren’t “real” in the way other life forms are, because they don’t form their own distinctive clade. They are instead “mixed in” the phylogenetic trees of other creatures that cannot be classified as “fish.”
NQvM TIL Out of 10.7 million Africans who survived the voyage to the New World, only 388,000 were shipped to North America (-6%).
4XZMa TIL the Earth often has more than one moon. The Earth captures asteroids and they orbit our planet for about a year before being pulled away by the sun. The mini-moon 2020 CD3 left us on March 7th and was about the size of a compact car. The technical term is "temporarily captured object."
BrAor TIL Norman Pilcher, who arrested John Lennon and other rock stars for drug possession in the 1960's, served four years in prison starting in 1973 for fabricating entries in his police diary in the course of a large drug investigation.