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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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9M0r TIL of a company making an alternative to rat poison for large populations. Instead of killing those that ingest the product, it makes a percentage of them sterile.
64vZ TIL Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was among twenty-two Harvard students subjected to “horrific experiments” conducted as part of the secret CIA project MKUltra, the same project that produced LSD and whose goal was mind control.
wLLR6 TIL that the Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.
e0Peg TIL "Father Time"; the Roman god, Saturn; the Greek god, Cronos; and the Grim Reaper are different versions of the same mythic character.
VZmQ TIL an Airbus A380 weighs 400 tons, about twice what the Statue of Liberty does