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TIL Seattle Public Library has made their ebook collection available to to 13-26 year olds living anywhere in the US

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mxLOY TIL Alfred Nobel considered naming dynamite "Nobel's Safety Powder"
oBYR7 TIL that Richard Nixon's daughter, Julie, ended up marrying Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson, David, in 1968. They had 3 children and are still married to this day.
glZ4 TIL that is 2009 two men randomly decided to attack two men dressed in drag. It turned out the two drag queens were cage fighters in fancy dress.
9w6Nm TIL Mercator maps were never intended as general-purpose world maps. The massive distortion of geographical geometry is a side-effect of the map's special feature: simple marine navigation. A course along any constant compass direction is represented on the map as a straight line.
ANNLn TIL in 2003, before TNN was renamed Spike TV, Spike Lee filed for an injunction to stop the channel's name change. Lee claimed that "The media description [...] confirmed what was obvious - that Spike TV referred to Spike Lee."