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TIL George R.R. Martin writes all his novels in DOS using the ancient word processing program WordStar

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QNWwa TIL two gifted college students considered themselves so superior they planned “the perfect murder” to prove their intellectual abilities. After murdering a child, despite their purported genius, they left plenty of evidence and were swiftly caught and brought to judgment.
R7rGa TIL Gary Sinise, known for his role as Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, though the work of his Lt. Dan Band and the Gary Sinise Foundation, have provided at least 70 forever homes for veterans and officers injured in the line of duty.
wox07 TIL while the root is safe to eat, handling parsnip foliage can cause skin irritation in some individuals due to compounds that react under sunlight, leading to a condition known as phytophotodermatitis.
e0LyJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci received complaints about his procrastinating from one of the priors while painting The Last Supper. He solved the argument by threatening to use that particular prior as the model for Judas in the fresco. The complaints stopped shortly after he made this remark.
Xe0E TIL lobsters were once considered “poverty food” and served to prisoners and servants