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TIL a group of British librarians ranked “To Kill a Mockingbird” ahead of the Bible as the book everyone should read before they die

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loD8G TIL that the largest data array is being constructed in California, it will hold up to 120,000 Terabytes of memory. It’s made of 200,000 separate hard drives all interlaced.
9YQjQ TIL a Black Robin named Old Blue has become the mother of her entire species when she was the last fertile female in a group of 5 Robins. There are now 250 Black Robins on the Chatham Islands, and have raised their status from Critically Endangered to Endangered.
RYBQ TIL in 2004, Dave Matthews Band dumped 800lbs of human waste from their tour bus onto a group of tourists in Chicago
gMK5A TIL that the real "Last Samuraï" who inspired the movie with Tom Cruise wasn't American, but rather a French officer named Jules Brunet
RaXw TIL water was almost banned in Aliso Viejo, California because of the dihydrogen monoxide hoax