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TIL Reporters without Borders have used a Minecraft server to build a virtual library, indexed by country, the Library offers in game copies of banned books and articles that circumvent internet censorship, called The Uncensored Library.

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wQwP TIL in ancient Rome 1 pound of Tyrian purple dye cost 3 pounds of gold because it took 10,000 shellfish to produce 1 gram of it.
Xg88 TIL Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick Ass) faked a British accent when she auditioned for her role in ‘Hugo’ because she heard that Martin Scorsese was looking to cast a British actress. When she got the part, she had to come clean.
rR95w TIL In 1966 Ronald Reagan wrote to JellyBelly, saying "We owe you a special measure of thanks for helping keep our state government running smoothly." "It's gotten to the point...where we can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around a jar of jelly beans."
oRkKR TIL that Hyacinth Thrash wasn't the only survivor of the Jonestown Massacre. The other was 79 year old Grover Cleveland Davis who being hard of hearing slept through the death assembly. He died a year later.
e0Yab TIL it's thought that Titanic could have missed the iceberg by just a few feet if the ship's engines had not being reversed, as the lack of a reverse turbine for the central propeller caused the rudder to work ineffectively when compared to forward speed.