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TIL “Mary Had a Little Lamb” is based off a real girl named Mary Sawyer who had a pet lamb she took to school. Mary’s house was destroyed by arson in 2007.

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ADYrn TIL of Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th century French swordswoman and opera singer who was challenged to duels by three different noblemen after kissing a young woman at a society ball. She beat all 3 of them. She was later sentenced to death by fire for kidnapping and arson. She survived that too!
A6Dx TIL that Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat to help combat illiteracy. 348 words were identified as being important to first-graders, which he was asked to narrow down to 250. Nine months later, Seuss used 236 of them to complete The Cat in the Hat
wvPP TIL: that The word “companion”, from the Latin word, com meaning “with” and panis meaning “bread”.
ONPe TIL Adam Driver (Kylo Ren) was a US Marine
X0oOQ TIL about Jim Gordon, a drummer that worked with George Harrison, and shared a songwriting credit for "Layla", with Eric Clapton, but suffered from various mental health issues and spent 40 years in jail for the murder of his mother.