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TIL that paper books still outsells e-books by a huge margin, even among young people.

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XEdZj TIL Hatcher, the first Triceratops specimen to go on exhibit, was pieced together in 1905 from ten different fossilized specimens and became the centerpiece of the "Hall of Extinct Monsters," and later on underwent 3D replacement as a result of "pyrite disease" after 1998
R5vvw TIL that Marie Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, also received a Nobel prize in chemistry. And she also shared it with her husband.
pMAN TIL Sealand is a micronation that was founded on a abandoned sea fort
rR7k1 TIL comedian Joey Diaz kidnapped a man and stole 2 kilos of cocaine from him in 1987. He was arrested for it and sentenced to prison but in 2019 that man went to a Joey Diaz show after they corresponded for 5 years and Diaz apologized for his actions.
78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.