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TIL that Ray Bradbury released a limited edition of his book, Fahrenheit 451, bound in Asbestos so it wouldn’t burn

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ZpM8p TIL of Douglas Adams's posthumous role as Agrajag in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series. Adams never recorded the lines for Agrajag and was dead by the time the BBC revived the series. Agrajag's lines are actually clips from Adams's reading of his books, recorded many years before.
OGeme TIL that as of 2021 there are only 25 blimps still in existence and only half of those are still in use
yVoKp TIL there's a species of fish (the Devils Hole pupfish) whose entire native range is a portion of a single underground pool in Death Valley.
Eg6vo TIL of the 'Petticoat Revolution' of 1916 in which seven women led secret campaigns to gain control of the town of Umatilla, OR
LkVbr TIL that Lake Superior has an island which has a lake which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder, which, when the pond floods, becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.