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TIL When fire fighting foam damaged 734,465 volumes in the Russian Academy of Sciences the government put out a radio appeal for citizens to dry them in their homes, this saved 93% of them

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xV1Y1 TIL the Australian Lyrebird can impersonate practically anything he hears to catch the attention of a possible mate, even going as far as making a camera shutter noise or a chainsaw taking a tree down.
plZ8 TIL of the Voynich manuscript, a 246 page book that is filled with botanical illustrations along with written word that modern linguists have so far been incapable of deciphering. Attempts to identify the plants have likewise largely failed. Carbon dating places the book at around 1400 AD.
Brjvr TIL that when Glacier National Park, Montana, was named the around 80 glaciers in the park made the name an obvious choice. Today there are fewer than 30 glaciers left. With the number getting smaller and smaller.
VBMk8 TIL that the possibility of your parents having another child that is an exact copy of you is extremely slim (1: 8,38 million), but it is in fact a real one. It is possible to get a clone sibling.
OGGXY TIL that milk is sprayed on vineyards to prevent grapes from becoming mildewed.