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TIL that Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, typed 313 books word for word to distribute them online free of cost. Today, the project has over 70.000 free eBooks.

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OGjW1 TIL in 2012, Spain’s King Juan Carlos I went elephant hunting in Botswana. The trip was meant to be secret, but he was badly injured and needed a medical flight home. A scandal erupted over the cost—and since he was an honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund at the time.
0wrgR TIL of a man named Garry Hoy who died trying to prove to a bunch of students that the glass wall on the 24tn storey of the building he worked in was unbreakable. He threw himself at the glass wall which didn't break but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death.
OoJER TIL Pilot fish can form sort of symbiotic relationships with sharks to the point where if their shark is caught, the pilot fish will follow the boat that took it and become distressed when it can't find it or isn't near its "host" shark.
8aXYP TIL Colonel Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor, over the repainting of a sign directing traffic to his station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders's competition.
rNn4w TIL there's a famous Go game called the "blood-vomiting game", known for 3 brilliant moves by winner Honinbo Jowa and for his opponent Intetsu Akaboshi coughing up blood onto the board, which led to his premature death at 25