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TIL Dr. Seuss illustrated a bestselling book called The Pocket Book of Boners.

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8a6GP TIL, that Oct. 2, 1929 marked the last time a Work Union existed in the small town of Marion, NC as 6 members were shot in cold blood by the local sherrifs. Seven of whom were Anti-Union and deputized moments before the shooting. All were aquitted.
DQwWg TIL that a retired print technician from Yorkshire David Smith in 2023 discovered the Einstein tile, a single tile that is capable of tiling the plane aperiodically thereby solving a long standing open problem in mathematics.
xKlw TIL: Ticketmaster’s service charge fees are added upon by the venue, and Ticketmaster takes the heat for it on purpose.
R7YNl TIL: The Legend of The Deep Sea Black Carpet
neyao TIL about beach theft, or the illegal removal of large quantities of sand from a beach leading to full or partial disappearance of the beach. In 2008 in Jamaica, someone stole approximately 500 truckloads of sand from a beach, effectively making it "disappear".