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TIL Bob Marley Died from Skin Cancer that Started Under his Toenail

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5Y9PD TIL that Cambridge University Library's 17-storey tower holds one million banished books that were considered 'not academic enough' and is now a literary time capsule and treasure trove for researchers.
kO9B TIL all of the videos on BBC’s website have volumes that go up to 11
oBXpE TIL The U.S. navy has the world's only open ocean research platform that is able to tilt 90 degrees upright allowing research to be performed that no other water vessel is capable of performing due to its extreme stability while upright.
yV8Ga TIL Hildegard of Bingen wrote one of the earliest known constructed languages in the 12th century
0dWWv TIL house finches weren’t found in the eastern US until 1940 when they were illegally captured in California and brought to New York for pet shops to sell - until the owners of these shops got worried about getting busted for selling them - released them into the wild!