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TIL about the Book Women: during the Great Depression women would ride packhorses loaded with books to rural Appalachian towns, the Pack Horse Library project aimed to promote literacy.

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8A0V TIL in the Harry Potter universe, Hogwarts is located in Scotland, not England.
b69bN TIL that the 1970s disco mega-hit "More, More, More" was recorded in Jamaica by American porn star Andrea True. She was there to film some commercials, but a diplomatic dispute with the USA forced her to choose between spending her pay there or forfeiting it. She decided to pay for a demo record.
bjga TIL: Kim Jong Un was voted Time Magazine’s person of the year in 2012 after 4chan users hijacked the magazine’s online polls
6rZ TIL that because of the “Leap Second” yesterday, numerous websites crashed because their algorithms couldn’t compute that extra second, including Reddit.
JEJl TIL that, since 1950, acceptance of an Academy Award statuette requires that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.