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TIL that Stephen King writes 2,000 adverb free words everyday. Mr. King believes that, “Adverbs were created with the timid writer in mind.”

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GYJPQ TIL the full name of the dictator of Zaire (now D.R. Congo) was Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, which translates to "The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake."
NX0re TIL Eminem owns a modestly sized recording studio in Ferndale, Michigan named Effigy, where a majority of his music since 2007 has been recorded.
gE1D TIL Oreo cookies are an imitation of Hydrox cookies, which are set to resume production in 2014
ExXo TIL that America founded the Iranian Nuclear program.
mxPgR TIL that Wilson Greatbatch invented the implantable pacemaker – but he didn’t mean to. He was attempting to build a device that recorded heart rhythms, but after he misassembled the contraption, he noticed that it was giving off a heartbeat-like pulse. The pacemaker went on to save millions of lives