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TIL There’s a medieval town in Italy abandoned since 1963
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TIL of the Future Library Project which includes 100 works of literature to remain unread and unpublished until 2114. A thousand trees were planed in 2014 to supply the paper for the anthologies of these works. Each year a new notable author is chosen, most recently Ocean Vuong.
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TIL that The Day After, a 1983 made- for- TV movie about nuclear war and it’s horrific effects, was watched by about 100 million people when it aired. President Reagan was left deeply depressed after viewing it, the film is now seen as having pushed him to start advocating nuclear disarmament
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TIL that there are no known creature on earth with an odd number of legs used for locomotion except kangaroo.
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TIL when workers were renovating Ireland’s Leap Castle, they found so many human remains impaled on wooden spikes within a wall, it took three cartloads to remove them.
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TIL a French waiter stole $1.4 billion worth of art between 1995 and 2001 and didn’t sell any of it.