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TIL about a house made from the tombstones of 2,200 soldiers
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TIL that when Einstein died in 1955, a small notebook containing his calculations were found. The notebook has been posted online for everyone to see.
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TIL a worm sent into space so that its regenerative powers in zero gravity could be studied grew a second head. When the heads are removed they grow back again.
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TIL: One tiger killed 436 people.
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TIL the loss of the Great Library of Alexandria wasn’t a great loss of historical texts. The majority of the library’s scrolls had been copied for libraries in Persia, Byzantium, and Iraq; Its believed the study of these texts helped form universities through Europe in the Early Middle Ages
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TIL that the titular restaurant of the song "Tom's Diner" is the same one used for exterior shots of the diner in "Seinfeld"