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TIL that it has been estimated that five of the ten highest prices ever paid for a book (adjusted for inflation) were for John James Audubon's The Birds of America.

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gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.
rNl0y TIL that the Fukushima disaster would have caused far less months of life lost if the residents were instead sheltered in place because of the factors due to the displacement such as suicide, depression and stress causing more months of life lost in the process.
0dkAy TIL The first footprints on the moon will remain there for a million years.
0nXM TIL there was a Russian guy who would dig up young girls’ graves, mummify bodies, and dress them up at his home. His parents thought they were just plain dolls.
XEkkD TIL Costa Rica is the first country to start a ban on all single-use plastics, scheduled to be complete by 2021