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TIL that Mary Shelley kept the calcified heart of her husband; a year after she died it was found in her desk.

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KOL4J TIL Cosmetic companies list water as "aqua" because they are abiding by the INCI (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) which is a naming system for oils, pigments, chemicals, and other ingredients of cosmetics. This way everyone knows exactly what's what when they read the label.
p8DnN TIL that a Brontosaurus skull has never been found.
AD6l TIL a 5 year old girl cut the ribbon at a bridge opening. 88 years later, she headed the ceremony to close it!
BrE5b TIL in 2014, Harvard University discovered that a book inside their library from the 1880s was bound together using human skin. The book was named Destinies Of The Soul and was written by Dr. Bouland. In the book, he left this note: "A book about the human soul deserved to have human covering."
loQaN TIL: Canadian researchers have just identified what they say is the first case of Cancer (Osteosarcoma) in a dinosaur. It's diagnosis only took 75 million years!