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TIL of a town in the state of Arizona named "Nothing", which, fittingly, has a population of zero, although it once had a gas station, a small convenience store and at its height, 4 people living there

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dlDj TIL the then unknown writer Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death. Brod didn’t, published them and Kafka became world famous posthumously.
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