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TIL anthropodermic bibliopegy is the old act of binding books in human skin. An odd example was found in Harvard’s library, where a Bristol police record was bound in the very skin of a hanged murderer.

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6EVwJ TIL that singer-songwriter Tori Amos, received a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five. She is the youngest person ever to have been admitted. At the age of eleven, she was expelled for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination".
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