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TIL that Google intends to scan all known existing 130 million unique books by the end of the decade.

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0wPPv TIL, The famous fictional British spy, James Bond (code name 007) was borrowed from a real-life American ornithologist who had written Birds of the West Indies, a book that Fleming, creator of James bond had loved in his youth.
a5E9 TIL NASA was hesitant to send women into space because they weren’t sure how their periods would affect their performance - “it was theorized that a woman could be bleed to death in micro gravity”
7GPP TIL in WW2, the British navy rescued a German cat that was floating on the wreckage of a sinking battleship. The cat went on to “serve” aboard several British ships and survived two additional sinkings
E1mNW TIL, it's estimated that there are 6,000 shipwrecks distributed across all of the Great Lakes.
EdLo TIL a 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex was bought for $1.5 million by a New York businessman