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5VRQQ TIL The Penn Library at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia is home to the largest collection of Frisian-language literature outside of Europe. Frisian is spoken by 500,000 people and is the language closest to English.
EgOgx TIL that in Japan, there is an annual Penis Festival called "Kanamara Matsuri"
vlND TIL the author of the book Eragon, Christopher Paolini, started writing the book at age 14. It placed on the New York Times Children’s Books Best Seller list for 121 weeks.
nem7W A new report found the seafood contains an alarming amount of plastic – and in fact, no sea creature is immune. It’s as if the ocean is wreaking its revenge
M786W TIL that the 19th Century photographic albumen printing process, which used egg whites as a binder to hold light-sensitive chemicals, yielded vast by-products of egg yolks. So photographers made recipes for them, such as "photographer's cheecake". They were sometimes published in old photo journals