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TIL that One Piece is the 2nd highest selling comic book of all time. It’s outsold X Men, Spider-Man and Batman to achieve this goal.

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kKE4 TIL: Eugene O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel at Times Square, he also died on November 27, 1953 in another hotel in Boston. His last words were “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room.”
7r7PP TIL King Duarte of Portugal suffered from severe melancholy and depression, caused by the pressures of his job and living through a pandemic. The medieval doctors suggested he get more sleep and avoid solitude and idleness
jNyOv TIL about LT. Gail Halvorsen, who dropped confections out of his airplane to German children during the Berlin Airlift, earning him the nickname "Candy Bomber"
V440 TIL that the Soviets had another massive nuclear disaster before Chernobyl which contaminated up to 20,000 square km of land. Despite their attempts to hide the incident the CIA knew all about it, but they also covered it up to prevent the growing US nuclear industry from panicking.
vPGmL TIL that Rod Temperton wrote Vincent Price’s famous "Thriller" spoken-word sequence while in a taxi cab on his way to the recording studio. Vincent Price then recorded his spoken-word sequence in two takes.