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TIL when Marquis de Sade died in 1814, his son burned all of his unpublished manuscripts, and his descendants tried to suppress his work for over a century.

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X0AJj TIL that barnacles (balanus glandula) are sticky little crustaceans related to crabs, lobsters, and shrimps.
neLX9 Today I learned about Joyce Carol Vincent - a young woman who died and lay undiscovered in her flat for 3 years surrounded by undelivered christmas presents she had purchased for friends and family.
VM4nQ TIL that baby owls sleep face down because their heads are too heavy.
8aRZX TIL In 1956 writer Harper Lee received an envelope from family and friends with a year’s salary in it. It read “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She wrote To kill a Mockingbird which won the Pulitzer prize and sold over 30 million copies worldwide
Lk4KZ TIL there is a beach with pink sand on Komodo Island (the island where Komodo Dragons come from). The color comes from micro-organisms called foraminifera in local coral reefs