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TIL fiction writers are 10 times more likely to be bipolar, poets 40 times more likely.

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9wLEM TIL that the last U.S. Army cavalry charge in combat occurred in 1942. American soldiers would not enter combat on horseback again until Army Green Berets used them in October 2001.
KEvQ TIL that it is by pure coincidence that we exist on a planet and in a time when our star is covered exactly during a total eclipse. No other known planet has total eclipses and at some point in the future they won’t occur on Earth either.
xo65 TIL that the world’s longest movie, “The Cure for Insomnia”, is a video of a man reading out a 4000-page poem over the course of 3 days
wEg1 TIL At the urging of radio host Jean Shepherd, listeners entered bookstores and asked for a book that did not exist. So many people took part in this hoax that the book was soon on The New York Times Best Seller list.
6ENXW TIL that the Germans thought that the shotgun was too inhuman a weapon, and lodged a complaint against the US.