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TIL A packet of cigarettes in Australia will cost $40 by 2020

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wLBO8 TIL That the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel died of Tuberculosis at the age of 26 and did most of his major work in a span of about 7 years while living in poverty. The equivalent of the Nobel prize in the field of mathematics; the Abel prize, is named after him.
6og8 TIL scientists have successfully genetically engineered American chestnut trees to resist the blight that annihilated them, bringing back a species from functional extinction.
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.
l7NYV TIL of the Boynton Bicycle Railroad. It was a monorail with two vertically aligned rails(one wooden), double decker passenger cars, propelled by steam engines that ran for two years in the 1890s in Brooklyn, New York.
rRPje TIL Maserati worked hard and failed to construct a V16 town car for Benito Mussolini before Ferry Porsche of Volkswagen built one for Adolf Hitler