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TIL : Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin.Surviving examples of human skin bindings have often been commissioned, performed, or collected by medical doctors, who have access to cadavers, sometimes those of executed criminals.

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AD74o TIL dogs know when you smile at them
611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.
m1jp TIL that putting the suffix “azo” on the end of any noun in Spanish means to hit something with it.
nKkW TIL The US Government and accountability office in 2012 released “a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.”
Xm1E TIL that in response to the moral panic surrounding violent video games, Penn & Teller released “Desert Bus,” for the Sega Cd. In the game you drive a bus from Tuscon to Las Vegas in a straight line for 8 hours.