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TIL there's been fish fossils discovered high up in the Himalayas

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R5nb6 TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) took a single wicket during his brief first class Cricket career - that of the famed W. G. Grace - and he was so elated at the achievement that he wrote a poem about it.
0y5M TIL Mila Kunis was 14 years old when she auditioned for “That 70’s Show”. She said she’d be 18 on her birthday, but never said which birthday
OBjL TIL that there is a drug that actually causes the body to burn fat and release the energy as heat. It’s so effective that it actually causes overheating of the body, and side effects of this could include cataracts, because parts of the eyes are extremely sensitive to heat.
dDe5Z TIL that every book published in the United Kingdom and Ireland has to have one copy kept at the British Library. It gets about 8,000 new books every day, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space annually, and stores over 200,000,000 titles.
M7emK TIL that 1.6% of the general population has Borderline Personality Disorder: a disorder that is characterized by hypersensitivity to rejection and resulting instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect and behavior.