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TIL Slap Braclets were discovered by a substitute shop teacher, Stuart Anders, who was fidgeting with a self-rolling tape measure

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KEJJ TIL that when Madeline L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, was asked if the film adaption met her expectations, she replied, “Yes, I expected it to be bad, and it is.”
rRO6e TIL that on his death bed in 1936, King George's Dr issued the final notice “The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close" and then proceeded to inject him with 750mg of morphine and 1000mg of cocaine, enough to kill him twice over.
dDMLE TIL 'Pebble" refers to any rock with a size between 4mm to 64mm, or 0.16" to 2.52"
eOKE TIL that many Jewish families arrested during the Holocaust have been commemorated with gold bricks in the streets memorializing where lived. As of August 20, 2014, there have been laid over 48,000 Stolpersteine in 18 countries in Europe, making the project the world’s largest memorial.
awj99 TIL that Valentina Tereshkova, only 26 at the time, was the first women to fly into space.