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TIL Curious George was written by a Jewish couple who escaped Paris in 1940 on self-made bicycles

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r7Xw TIL that a German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion by hand like a 21st-century monastic scribe as his final project.
keZe TIL Cheese has small amounts of morphine in it
e0OEE A woman of average build, who exercises moderately intensively every day, burns about 2,000 kilocalories a day, and a man around 2,500 kilocalories. This means that you can live off your fat reserves for an average of 66 days (for a woman) or 53 days (for a man), as long as you don’t become more active.
vgMR TIL on 3/11/08 a viewer asked Jim Cramer if he should worry about his investment in Bear Stearns. Cramer replied “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear.” 3 days later it dropped 92%.
ANXpa TIL there are 57 universities around the world with no tuition for all international students, providing free education regardless of a student's country of origin.