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TIL The Outsiders was written by a girl in high school, because she was unsatisfied with the YA books available at the time.

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Bpvx TIL a B2 Bomber carries not one, but sixteen nuclear bombs, each 75 times bigger than the one dropped on Hiroshima.
l7L7a TIL that an NFL player simultaneously served in the US Navy. Napoleon McCallum played for the LA Raiders while assigned to a ship in Los Angeles; the military allows outside jobs that don't interfere with service. After one year he was reassigned; McCallum returned to the NFL after leaving the Navy.
Bjdr TIL the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World only existed simultaneously for a period of less than 60 years.
ADo4o TIL Paul Bettany proposed to Jennifer Connelly without even dating and she said yes.
X0GwR TIL about Sherman Copy of the Declaration of Independence, which seems to indicate John Adams copied an original from someone with the initials "T.P." , suggesting Thomas Paine may have had a hand in drafting the Declaration of Independence. Paine was the author of Common Sense.