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TIL that South Korean figure skater Kim Yuna has not finished off the podium in her ENTIRE career

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OGx6L TIL Arguably, the oldest extant European book is the Liber Linteus, an Etruscan book written on linen and dated to the 3rd century BC. The fabric of the book was preserved because it was used for mummy wrappings in Ptolemaic Egypt.
78oyL TIL that in 2009, hundreds of brightly-colored bird specimens were stolen from the Natural History Museum London. It was later found that a student had sold them online to be used for fly-fishing lures.
KOYxE TIL the Beastie Boys won a lawsuit against a company for the unauthorized use of their song "Girls" and had the $1 Million settlement donated to a charity supporting education for Girls
RpYa TIL When Start Trek ended in 1969 William Shatner was homeless, living out of the back of a pickup truck with his dog
15k7 TIL there is a legendary hobo rockclimber known as ‘Chongo’ who, while illegally living inside Yosemite National Park almost a decade, made a life by scavenging food, ascending sheer rock faces and writing a book called “The Homeless Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”.