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TIL - The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.

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gdED TIL that Oprah Winfrey is currently North America’s only black billionaire.
58KD TIL that lotuses are basically night clubs for beetles because they are able to keep their flowers at a constant 30-35°C even during cold nights. Beetles trapped “when the petals on these bowl-shaped blooms closed up for the night were indeed very active, spending the night mating and feeding”.
ne87b TIL about PS General Slocum, a passenger steamboat that burned and sank into the East River in 1904. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 passengers died, the largest loss of life in terms of disaster in NYC until 9/11.
woJPW TIL about an island that formed in a volcanic eruption in 1963 and is now used as a study site for how nature colonizes newly formed environments
xVDk5 TIL that the Inca people used no money or currency of any kind.