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TIL the 1954 novel "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding is Stephen King's favorite book

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ybXv TIL in the 16th century, Ishikawa Goemon was sentenced to death by being boiled alive in an iron cauldron along with his very young son, but was able to save his son by holding him above his head. His son was then forgiven
awQdy TIL Gerbils or Hamsters and other small rodents will sometimes(if not often) eat their babies
GYjxj TIL male Pennsylvania grass spiders are more likely to approach a female for sex if she has recently killed and eaten another male.
nWjPW TIL of a Spokane fraudster who ran a car accident insurance fraud scheme that involved many conspirators. He would fake car crashes that involved ramming the cars himself, inflicting injuries on selected fake victims, with them even carrying bottles of urine to pour over themselves for the act.
YpoOG TIL at 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake, Canadian ice makers secretly hid a loonie (dollar coin) at center ice of the hockey rink. After both Canadian men and women hockey teams won gold, the "lucky loonie" was put in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Canadians still hide coins at the Olympics for luck.