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TIL Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected by twenty publishers, and was finally accepted by Chilton, which was primarily known for car repair manuals.

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9YVrM TIL about Winston County, Alabama, which during the American Civil War attempted to cede from the Confederacy and become a free republic, as the lack of any plantations and resulting rarity of slaveholders in the region gave the locals little reason to sympathize with the rebel cause
8aQ4L TIL that there are approximately 100,000 active phone booths still left in the USA
l7807 TIL that the Sega Saturn was Sega's best-selling console in Japan and even outsold the Nintendo 64 in that region
5YJpp TIL Ramin Djawadi, the music composer for Game of Thrones & Westworld, has a condition called synesthesia - where he can "see" music.
9EYQ TIL that the Junípero Serra High School JV football team recorded a historically bad season in which they failed to win a game or even score a touchdown yet they never attempted to start their backup quarterback. That backup quarterback they refused to start is 4 time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.