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TIL Ernest Hemingway's paranoia has been ascribed to everything from alcoholism to bi-polar disorder to CTE, but he was indeed being followed by the FBI due to his extensive ties in Cuba

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mxLBY TIL Queen Elizabeth II still has 4 years to go to be the longest-reigning monarch of all time. Something aim for...
Elrw TIL Richard Nixon cancelled the last three Apollo missions and did not fund any successor program, effectively ending NASA’s plan for a 100 person space station
9YRar TIL the song Over the River and Through the Wood is actually about Thanksgiving, and although we don't usually associate Thanksgiving with snow, at the time it was written, in the early 19th century, New England was going through the Little Ice Age.
0XKy TIL Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo, sold Bebo to AOL for $850 million in 2008 only to later buy it back for only $1 million in 2013.
Wj8Y TIL A man bought a shipping container for $400 and found a $2,000,000 Canadian warship engine inside.