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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.

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Jonj TIL when Nicolas Cage was sleeping at his home, he was awoken by a presence. Cage awoke to find a naked man before his eyes, eating a fudgesicle and wearing his jacket. “It sounds funny” Cage said, “but it was horrifying”. Cage used “Verbal Judo” to get the man to leave. Cage now lives on an island.
QJRM9 TIL pistacios stored in bulk can spontaneously combust and behave like pyrophoric and self-heating substances (Class 4.2 of the IMDG Code)
LBL0 TIL that 2-digit interstates ending with a 0 go east-west and with 5 go north to south. If it is 3-digits (495) it is an offspring of the original road (95). If the first of the 3-digit is odd, it goes through a city, if it is even it goes around a city.
95kr TIL: A physicist, having been cited for not stopping at an intersection, successfully defended himself through mathematical analysis of the situation. He published a paper to the court to prove his innocence.
vPD5j TIL The “Grave with the Hands” in Roermond, Netherlands are two tombstones on opposite sides of a wall connected by two hands holding each other. This is for a Protestant/Catholic couple who had to be buried in separate sections of the cemetery.