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TIL: Turkish Garbage Collectors Curate Their Own Library using books they have collected that people have thrown away. The sanitation workers have already amassed a collection of more than 6,000 books.

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a86LN TIL Jay-Z managed to obtain the permission to have a sample from Annie on "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" by writing the copyright holder a letter about his childhood trip to see the Broadway musical. However, the letter was a fib and Jay-Z had never seen the show.
4XNp5 TIL in Germany on Sunday, trucks are not allowed to use the highways, unless they have a special permit or are delivering essential supplies
nWEZY TIL how horses can sleep standing up
7GPP TIL in WW2, the British navy rescued a German cat that was floating on the wreckage of a sinking battleship. The cat went on to “serve” aboard several British ships and survived two additional sinkings
jrWj TIL Stalin liked to play practical jokes, so he created a rule which stated that no one could enter his bedchambers, so one night he pretended to scream in agony, and his guards rushed in to protect him, but they broke Stalin’s rule, and Stalin executed them shortly afterwards.