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TIL Generation Y officially buys more books than baby boomers

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1arX TIL in Denmark there is a mobile sand dune that has been left unmanaged to allow future generations to understand the problems it presents.
jNKDa TIL that the jolly fat person that people generally associate with Buddha is actually a different person - a Buddhist monk named Budai. Buddha himself is not usually depicted as fat.
xZk5 TIL there is only one known recording of John Lennon and Paul McCartney playing together after the breakup of the Beatles. In it, Lennon is heard offering Stevie Wonder a snort of cocaine.
ovnW TIL each trap on a Venus Flytrap plant can only close about ten times before dying.
N1BN TIL there were more murders in Chicago in 2016 than the entire United Kingdom