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TIL after author James Frey was caught fabricating parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces, Random House offered purchasers of the book a refund. To get this refund, they had to send in page 163 of their book & a sworn statement that they purchased it under the assumption that it was a memoir.

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WkKQX TIL The Douamont Ossuary has the bones of over 100,000 unidentified soldiers who died at Verdun. The total combined casualties of the battle amounted to 750,000 with 300,000 being KIA
VQBQ TIL that NASA estimates that the value of minerals in the asteroid belt exceeds $600,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or nearly $100 billion per person alive.
VVLG TIL Orlando Serrell suffered a traumatic brain injury when playing baseball as a kid that went untreated due to his families financial situation. However since the day of his accident he’s been able to recall every day of his life, including the date, day of the week and the weather.
9YXeB TIL The present urban population is larger than the total population of the world when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as president of the United States of America
VMKyB TIL - While other birds have to sit on nests and use their body heat to incubate their eggs, incubator birds are more like engineers and have a very good solution. They pile plant debris on their eggs and make use of the heat of composting to hatch their eggs, essentially creating a mini greenhouse.