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TIL of A Book from the Sky. This 1987 book was designed in the style of a medieval Chinese manuscript, but all 4000 Chinese characters in it are invented by the author and have no meaning

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X0rG6 TIL that a sea slug species steal chloroplasts from the algea it has eaten and uses them for photosynthesis.
kJGBB TIL that in the 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Sharp, the County of Los Angeles included quotations from Mein Kampf in arguing that the state’s ban on interracial marriage should be upheld.
mrKP TIL Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but ‘useless’ television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.
d8OG7 TIL Ronald Reagan appointed the first female supreme Court justice as promised in his campaign - Sandra Day O'Connor
b9lnE TIL that born and raised in Mozambique student filed lawsuit against medical school in US for harassment and suspension for identifying himself as “white African-American.” He was told “never to call himself as an African-American" as it was offensive to others and to people of color.