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TIL that UK libraries offer free digital access to nearly all newspapers, magazines, audiobooks and eBooks.

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QJZvE TIL that people think of Vikings as big brutes but most were small because of malnutrition and when they would attack they would use their speed not their strength.
mQEE TIL that during the 16th century Martin Guerre, a French peasant, disappeared and a man claiming to be him “reappeared”. He lived with Guerre’s wife and son for three years ‘til he was discovered to be a man named Arnaud du Tilh, tried and executed. The real Guerre had returned during the trial.
ADwG4 TIL that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter (pictured) drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the CIA
Z8Lj4 TIL About a Canadian drink called the sour toe. It consists of a mummified human toe at the bottom of a whiskey shot. People donate their toes for the tradition
rx7W TIL Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, wouldn’t begin a story without envisioning both an opening and closing line.