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TIL the children's book The Iron Giant was based on was written by Ted Hughes, the husband of Sylvia Plath.

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Wr4Y TIL of “double-hit" cases in China, where drivers who hit pedestrians will intentionally run over them again until they are killed in order to avoid paying for their lifetime medical bills.
gGb TIL In 1897, three men tried to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen-filled balloon. The balloon crashed two days after lift-off and the men spent the next 3 months trying to walk back to civilization…only to be eaten by polar bears.
Vb8B TIL: cherophobia (fear of happiness) is an attitude towards happiness in which individuals may deliberately avoid experiences that invoke positive emotions or happiness because they think something bad will happen after.
Bg1gd TIL that it’s someone’s job to ride ahead of the Tour de France and erase all of the dick graffiti before the race arrives and gets shown on camera
M7mOa TIL that after losing the Hundred Years War in 1453, English monarchs continued to include the title "King of France" in their style until 1801, 347 years later.