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TIL Lee Harvey Oswald still owes an overdue book – The Shark and the Sardines by Juan José Arévalo – to Dallas public library.

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8ebyG TIL a music producer in Japan put two different endings for the physical CDs of an album themed around quantum physics. This way, people would "observe" one of the two outcomes of the album, as in quantum mechanics.
Rov1 TIL: Japan’s 2022 Fifa’s world cup bid included projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto fields across the world.
MXvV TIL that the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi first proposed the “Matrix philosophy” after dreaming he was a Butterfly. “Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man”
YpLr TIL that the gold records the RIAA gives to artists are actual gold-plated vinyl records, but they often were made from any record that was handy. Rarely was the plated record actually of the song or album being commemorated.
rp01 TIL that both Mama Cass (from the Mamas & the Papas) and Keith Moon (from The Who) died in the same apartment owned by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson.