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TIL Why an Internet Tycoon Purchased a Book for 1.5 Million Dollars | To Give It Away For Free! | Leading Philanthropist Buying Rarest Books on The Planet for Outrageous Prices

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x6Ppk TIL John Quincy Adams (the sixth U.S. president) met both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (the first and 16th).
NBnE TIL that Pharrell Williams and his partner Chad Hugo were responsible for producing 43% of the songs played on US radio in 2003. 10 years later Pharrell’s having a similar run.
nyEP TIL An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs
m1eyo TIL the 2029 Asian Winter Games will be held in Neom, a city in Saudi Arabia that doesn’t exist yet
awYxJ TIL, smokers are exposed to some of the highest levels of radiation on earth from the radioactive traces of Polonium and Lead in tobacco.