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TIL Printer ink cost over 7 times more than Dom Perignon vintage champagne per milliliter

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xV7wD TIL JRR Tolkien (Author of the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) would hand-write, illustrate, envelop, seal, stamp letters from "Father Christmas" to each of his children each year.
6EkO8 TIL that famous 18th century novelist Laurence Sterne's body was stolen from his grave and a surgeon used it as part of an anatomy lecture until somebody recognized him, and he was reburied.
KYrMG TIL that the body of a 74-year-old woman who died of Alzheimer's in 2013 and whose son donated her body to Alzheimer's research was callously blown up by the U.S. Army for a "roadside bomb damage" experiment, despite her son's explicit wishes to exclude non-medical experiments and military use.
BPMD TIL Goldfish have higher attention spans than internet users
rNBA0 TIL that a dog named Pickles helped recover the stolen Jules Rimet Trophy during a walk with his owner, just four months before the 1966 World Cup. Pickles was later invited to join the celebrations when England won the tournament.