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4kXDN TIL John Halkin is the pseudonym of an unknown British author who wrote several horror novels in the 1980s for Hamlyn, most notably the “slimy” trilogy Slime, Slither, and Squelch.
QJyyL TIL that there is a living tree whose species had lived in the age of dinosaurs is now the last of its kind.
pYZX8 TIL: When serving in the Illinois Militia, Abraham Lincoln went from Capitan to Private in one move.
ANkR4 TIL When Enrico Fermi first split an atom in 1934, it was completely by accident. He was actually trying to create new elements by hitting uranium with neutrons. It was only in 1938 that other scientists figured out what Fermi did.
69RyX TIL that the British made war ships for the confederacy during the American Civil War