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TIL in 2014, Harvard University discovered that a book inside their library from the 1880s was bound together using human skin. The book was named Destinies Of The Soul and was written by Dr. Bouland. In the book, he left this note: "A book about the human soul deserved to have human covering."

nWXKP TIL of Janet Chandler a 22-years-old Michigan woman who was gang raped and killed by her colleagues in Feb 1979 because they hated her promiscuity, the case remained unsolved until in 2004 when some college students made a film called "Who killed Janet Chandler?" that led to the case being solved
b69Bp TIL in 1944, countries agreed with the US to settle their international accounts in dollars to have gold converted at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce. In 1971, President Nixon announced the US would no longer do it, thus completely abandoning the gold standard. This was known as the 'Nixon Shock'.
d8ewZ TIL that the first woman to establish a bank in the USA was an African-American named Maggie L. Walker in 1903. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was one of the few to survive the Great Depression and, after a merger, still exists today.
7AeL TIL if China, India and Brazil would adopt Euro 6 standards for vehicle emissions by 2015, NASA says the world’s particulates could be reduced by about 85 percent
P6ww TIL the feeling of euphoric chills some people can get while listening to music is called ‘frisson’ (pronounced “free-sawn”), and researches have described the sensation as a skin orgasm.