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TIL to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book, a famous medieval manuscript that extensively documented British properties, BBC made a crowdsourced comprehensive data set on the UK, with the goal of preserving the way of life at the time. They then put it on Laserdisc.

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8JOP TIL President Carter met with North Korea’s Kim Il Sung on a boat trip for five hours in 1994. Kim agreed with everything Carter proposed on resolving political differences and said OK to a summit meeting with the President of South Korea which never happened as Kim died that same month
e0Ak5 TIL that plants respond to stimuli as intelligent beings. When researchers played an audiotrack of caterpillars munching on leaves, plants secreted chemicals to make their own leaves more resistant. They can also sense gravity and the presence of water, and produce their own neurotransmitters.
5VA9n TIL that Tom Cruise did over 500 Skydives and 13,000 Motocross jumps in order to prepare for a single stunt in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
gMpXD TIL "nitrate free" labeled cured meats often use celery juice, which is naturally high in nitrates
VBOO4 TIL Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is exactly the way it was on April 4th, 1968, complete with bed and food tray, when Martin Luther King was shot. Room 306 was never rented again and preserved as The National Civil Rights Museum