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TIL that author Terry Pratchett can no longer read.

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JYxoj TIL Countess Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was convicted of killing 38 female serfs by beating and torturing them to death. Imprisoned at Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow; for the first 11 years, she was chained in a basement dungeon without a window and only given a candle during meals.
wZJ6 TIL DMX’s current net worth is negative ten million dollars.
EM80 TIL that all white tigers are the result of inbreeding and have no conservational value since they don’t exist in the wild and are not a separate species.
N7PpQ TIL actor/singer/dancer/comedian Danny Kaye (White Christmas 1954) was also a world-renowned chef, a pilot, and a philanthropist. He conducted orchestras although he could not read music, he received two Academy Awards, and he held honorary membership in two professional medical associations.
78aPZ TIL burns have been reclassified to superficial, partial thickness, deep partial thickness, and full thickness.