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TIL in 1980 a 10 year-old became the youngest librarian in the US after petitioning his mayor for a local library. Starting with 2,000 books he collected himself, his library climbed to 17k books by 1985 after his story was featured across the country including The Tonight Show and Reading Rainbow.

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Wl4L TIL that one of the two Lesbians to win the Nobel Prize in Literature was a man. Odysseas Elytis, who won in 1979, hailed from the Greek island of Lesbos.
PY6dL TIL that the Chinese army held an Olympics event for captured POWs in the Korean war, with 500 POWs from 11 countries participating. POWs also took roles as photographers, announcers and reporters.
6Eprw TIL: The Courthouse Square from “Back to the Future” also appeared in many other iconic films including: “Inherit the Wind,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Music Man.” It also shows up in “Bruce Almighty.”
VBowZ TIL there used to be penguins that grew to 6 feet tall and could weigh more than 250 lbs.
D1D0r TIL that marshmallows were originally made using root juices from a plant (Althaea Officinalis, AKA "marsh mallow")