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TIL that John Carpenter is a fan of video games like Fallout, Borderlands, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Assassin's Creed

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6918m TIL there is a Poison Book Project dedicated to identifying and cataloging antique books that were made with poisonous substances (such as arsenic in the color "Paris Green") to improve the awareness and safe handling of these books.
QJV7p TIL that Vanderbilt University, founded in 1873, is named in honor of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million endowment and hoped that his gift and the work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted on the American nation by the Civil War.
9wwA7 TIL that the phrase ‘involuntary celibate’ was coined by Alana, a ‘nerdy queer woman’ who had never been on a date, and who wanted a name for her loneliness and the loneliness of others like her.
xEv1 TIL that Craig Ferguson (Late Late Show host) and Peter Capaldi (new doctor who) were together on a band called “The Bastards from Hell”
nWDAo Til about Vasuki Indicus. The largest snake(10.9 to 15.2m) ever discovered and the only species in the genus Vasuki