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TIL every year for the next 100 years, 100 famous authors have pledged to each write a novel that will remain unpublished until the 22nd Century, when they will be published as part of a 'Library of the future' art project.

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R7vK6 TIL No two samples of human ashes will be precisely the same in terms of elemental composition
Wrw8 TIL of Dickey Chapelle, The first female reporter and correspondent killed in action. Dickey was at Iwo Jima, Okinawa during ww2 and covered the Hungarian revolution of 1956; She traveled with the troops and learned to jump with paratroopers. She was killed during the Vietnam war.
N7ynN TIL the majority of nukes ever detonated were done so outside Las Vegas -- over 1,000. You could see mushroom clouds from the hotels.
oRYPR TIL in 1929 an underwater earthquake in the Atlantic caused a tsunami that hit Canada's east coast
gM50b TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s grave. He even refused to leave after 7 days without food. When a man took him home and fed him, he quickly left and ran back to the grave. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him.