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TIL that Puff the Magic Dragon really was written as a children’s poem and isn’t a euphemism for smoking weed.

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woAP7 TIL about Charles Dickens’ son Frank, who joined the predecessors of Canada’s iconic Mounties after failing the British Foreign Office exams, losing his officer’s commission in the Bengal Mounted Police, and “squandering his inheritance on poor investments and disssipated living."
16Q0d TIL that the Mission Impossible theme is famous for its two long notes, followed by two short notes. These notes are the morse code signals for "M" and "I".
wZW7 TIL There is Exactly One Known Remaining Jew in Afghanistan, He Sells Kababs
5BYr TIL on two separate occasions, Keanu Reeves has had a female stalker break into his home. The second stalker undressed, took a shower, and then swam naked in his swimming pool.
xV1b1 TIL: If you stand in any particular spot on Earth, you will experience a total solar eclipse on average about once every 375 years