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TIL that when J.R.R. Tolkien was asked what he thought about Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, he replied he disliked it “with some intensity” and said it wouldn’t be fair to say anything negative about another working author.

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R55x6 TIL many Native American tribes used fire for thousands of years to manage forest brush for small game hunting as well as creating grasslands for big game to be hunted. This resulted in many species of plants, animals, and fungi to become extinct as the forest became a fire-adapted ecosystem.
4X16R TIL of Brian Robson, a Welshman man who tried to mail himself back to the UK. Unfortunately, not only did he not arrive at his intended location, he instead arrived in Los Angeles in extreme pain and was barely able to move.
M0d8 TIL Liv Tyler has two rock star dads. Until she was 8, she was told that her adoptive father, rock legend, Todd Rundgren, was also her biological dad. After learning she was the daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, she changed her last name and kept Rundgren as her middle name.
0d7Gy TIL that Anton Chekhov, known for his poignant, dark, open-ended short stories started out writing light hearted comedies.
0yoM TIL Carl Sagan was part of Project A119, a project whose goal was to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon.