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TIL: The Codex Leicester, a collection of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, holds the record for the sale price of any book. It was sold to Bill Gates for $US30,802,500.

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NLD6 TIL Amazon has a non-professional Starcraft II team named “Amazon Painforest”
7RrL TIL That most people in Cuba still drive old American cars from the 1950’s. There are about 60,000 classic American cars in Cuba today and if the embargo were to be lifted, the Cuban people could make a fortune off of these “Yank Tanks”
R5Vl1 TIL in the musical Phantom of the Opera the title character is only onstage for 27 minutes and his co-star, Christine Daae, is on stage for 2.5 hours. Yet the Phantom is considered the lead.
5Yn49 TIL Houston officials let developers build thousands of homes inside reservoirs. Nobody told homebuyers that the reservoirs were designed to flood during major rainstorms until Hurricane Harvey happened.
15VO TIL that R2-D2 was named when George Lucas was dozing off while working on the Star Wars script. The sound editor asked for “Reel 2, Dialog Track 2,” and Lucas awoke momentarily and stated that it was a “great name.”