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TIL Police kill 8x more American Citizens than Terrorists

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LMEQ TIL Bill Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, for a whopping $30.8 million, and made it openly available on Windows Vista.
7rgp7 TIL an Australian man was working as a hairdresser when he had the idea to make 3D printed prosthetic limbs from recycled shampoo and conditioner bottles. Working with 38 salons in Queensland, he is now testing the limbs with two children who had no access to practical and inexpensive prosthetics.
pYwZe TIL Vin Diesel has in his contract for the Fast & Furious franchise that he can never loose a fight
DVrj TIL that the parents of Geddy Lee (of the band Rush) fell in love as young teens at Auschwitz
Mer0m TIL that Paulo Coelho, internationally famous author of The Alchemist, "pirates" his own works -- by publishing torrents of his own books on file-sharing sites -- because he discovered that torrenting his books on Bittorrent actually boosted sales of his books quite significantly.