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Til: A Minecraft realm named "The Uncensored Library" catalogues banned journalism worldwide in order to fight government censorship as the game is unbanned worldwide.

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6EG9w TIL There are no reported cases of runners dying of dehydration during marathons — but there are plenty of cases of runners dying from water intoxication.
rRWme TIL about Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.
a0g9 TIL that Richard Nixon was gifted two Giant Pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) after his historic visit to China in 1972. They were given to the US as a token of friendship between the two countries.
wL14o TIL that every month, since 1983, every member of Congress has received a complimentary copy of Hustler Magazine, a pornographic publication, as a form of protest by the mag.
7rDw7 TIL that Ottoman military music, as a genre, is alive and well to this day