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TIL: Stephen King didn’t tell his kids bedtime stories; he made them tell him stories.

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v1xEB TIL: Some scientists say certain objects' unexpected orbits must be due to the presence of a gigantic planet beyond the solar system's Pluto. However, an emerging theory says the region's gravitational anomalies are better explained if the proposed object instead is a tiny early-stage black hole.*
VME4k TIL there were 30ft long sea cows called Steller's sea cows in the 1700s and we killed them.
MJY0 TIL when ISIS fighters were approached by Kurdish female fighters, they were told by their commanders to back off so they wouldn’t be killed by them. This is because Jihadists believe that if they die to a woman they will be deprived of heaven.
jNyZn TIL the Yiddish song "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" was a smash hit in Nazi Germany where pro-Nazi sympathizers in ale-houses often sang the tune under the mistaken impression that it was "a Goebbels-approved" ballad.
j68EQ TIL that 60s counterculture leader Abbie Hoffman's suicide note, dated 1989, read: "It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful."