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TIL there is a 50,000 word novel without the letter ‘E’
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TIL Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) gave Scientology $10,000,000
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TIL that H1N1, the influenza strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, survived another 40+ years as a seasonal flu bug. It was finally “extinguished” by another flu virus, H2N2, in the 1957 flu pandemic. Even so, a “new” H1N1 emerged 50 years later to cause the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic.
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TIL German was the first language of the majority of households until the 1950s in Schaumburg (Illinois)
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TIL Silly Putty was invented as a replacement for Japanese-controlled rubber sources in WWII.
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TIL about the Georgia Guidestones, a set of huge granite slabs in Elbert County, Georgia commissioned by anonymous benefactors. The 5 slabs contain messages in 12 languages, and are intended to help rebuild human civilization after a global catastrophe.