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TIL bookworms are a real problem and can cause significant damage to your books

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a8YjN TIL that Bubblegum Crisis creator Toshimichi Suzuki, passed away in January 2020.
8gWa TIL Ben & Jerry’s had a company rule that from top to bottom, the pay ratio between the highest salaried executive and lowest-earning-worker would be no greater than 5 to 1. It lasted for 16 years until Ben retired.
oRyrL TIL that A man named Göran Kropp from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Mount Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.
WkZ0o TIL that, in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences found only DNA analysis could rigorously and consistently match evidence to a single person/source with high confidence. Other methods, especially pattern matching (fingerprints, handwriting, bite marks, footprints, hair, fibers, etc.), could not.
jNDKN TIL that blue jays are in the Corvid family and are closely related to crows and ravens