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TIL the IKEA Catalogue has surpassed the Bible as the world's most printed book

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PGwE TIL that a single living vulture is valued at $11,000 based on the ecosystem services they provide by ridding the environment of carcasses that would otherwise spread diseases and cause economic consequences.
Wx99 TIL In the late 1970s, a cache of nude photos was found containing images of all incoming freshmen at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The reason for the photos is still debated.
neneb TIL John Snow, considered to be one of the fathers of the field of epidemiology, also pioneered the use of ether and chloroform as surgical anesthetics. Anesthesia was still considered an unethical practice, however, until Queen Victoria asked him to administer sedatives for one of her births.
XEWbR TIL the uniformed bugle "player" at veteran funerals is often simply playing a recording of taps from the bugle
neOP9 TIL that, in 2014, scientists found a giant 30,000 year old virus in Siberian permafrost. The virus, Pithovirus sibericum, was still infectious and began killing amoebas. This raised concerns that melting or drilling arctic ice could unearth previously undiscovered pathogenic viruses.