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TIL Indian man sued his parents for giving birth to him.
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TIL that Edgar Allan Poe became a writer after a failed military career. He enlisted in the US Army in 1827. He failed as a cadet at West Point, and declared his intention to become a writer. His first works (a collection of poems) were written while in the Army
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TIL The ship used on The Love Boat was seized by Italian authorities to settle a debt.
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TIL that Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, also wrote another book considered one of the worst horror novels of all time. The Lair of the White Worm has been described as "one of the most spectacularly incoherent novels ever to reach print", and H. P. Lovecraft called it "almost infantile".
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TIL Gene Greytak was a real estate broker who moonlighted as an actor, but he only played and made personal appearances as Pope John Paul II. If you saw the Pope in a movie or on a sitcom before 2005, it was Gene.
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TIL that Scottish fold cats are banned by the UK's pedigree cat registry because a genetic mutation that make their ears folded and their faces so cute also causes distortion of their limb bone shapes and severe painful arthritis.