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TIL Turkish garbage collectors have created a library from discarded books.

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5MPk TIL: Back in the ’60s, the Beatles wanted to make a movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings, with Stanley Kubrick directing, but Tolkien killed the project.
MeLwa TIL the corpse of a construction worker still remained, and was partially visible from the street, in the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel more than 3 months after the site's collapse.
m1nvP TIL Emperor Jing of the Han dynasty of China, while he was crown prince, beat his cousin to death with the board during a board game argument. Said cousin was the crown prince of one of Emperor Jing's vassal states, and his death resulted in his father hating Emperor Jing and eventually rebelling.
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gM1Ry TIL In an experiment, students who used laptops had substantially worse understanding of the lecture than those who did not. The researchers hypothesized the lecturer’s words flowed right to the students’ fast typing fingers without processing in their brains