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TIL of a device MIT created that can read ancient, fragile books and literature without touching them by shooting the pages with beams of radiation.

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Brb0x TIL, there’s a bunch of extremely useful punctuation marks that are barely ever used, such as the “Question Comma”.
e9vE TIL that when the Sears catalogue began to be printed on glossy paper instead of “regular” paper, the company received complaints because people found it harder to use as toilet paper
mxBWO TIL some elephants eat off a specific tree to induce labor - the same tree which kenyan women brew a tea of for the same purpose
6E81X TIL: The Great Whiskey Fire of Dublin in 1875 was when 5000 barrels of whiskey ignited and flowed into the streets. 13 people died that day, but not from burns or smoke inhalation. They died from alcohol poisoning after trying to drink it all.
vQRj TIL Serbia’s capital has been razed and rebuilt more than 40 times.