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TIL that Edgar Allen Poe advocated for the land of the United States of America to be named Appalachia instead.

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d8BP7 TIL that an ex-girlfriend of J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, auctioned off intimate letters Salinger sent her during their relationship. One man, Peter Norton, bought all of the letters for a considerable sum and promptly returned them to Salinger.
MekmA TIL that a young Irishman threw a message in a bottle from the sinking Titanic. He drowned. A year later, the bottle washed up on a beach — just a few miles from his mother’s home in Ireland.
6YXw TIL there was a small cave rumored to be entrance to Purgatory in Ireland for hundreds of years. It is unclear exactly what was in the cave since it has been closed for 400 years.
x60pB TIL that Muhammad Ali’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is mounted on a wall instead of the sidewalk. He requested the placement because of his shared name with the Islamic Prophet and felt it would be disrespectful for people to walk on it.
9YDJX TIL typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are all the same type of storm, they're just called differently depending on where they form