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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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oR8eW Today I learned that the United States not only had denominations of $500, $1000, $5,000, and $10,000, which are still legal for people to own, but for a very brief period they also had a $100,000 bill that was only ever used by banks and is considered illegal for private citizens to own.
GYROg TIL that Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters and is known as "Miss Unsinkable."
mJMP TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. A Canadian by the name of Henery Woodward did and sold Edison the patent, Edison simply made a few minor tweaks to the invention and stole all the credit.
vgjr TIL: USA Has Been At War 223 Out of 240 Years – Since 1776 i.e. USA has been at peace for in total 17 years since it’s birth.
Brevx TIL there's a spider that can bridge lines over a river spanning up to 25 metres (82 ft).