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TIL that Anthropodermic Bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. Klaatu Barada Nikto.

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l7vJr TIL of a 1998 marketing campaign by watchmaker Swatch, which divided the day into 1000 "beats" rather than the traditional seconds system. It was called "Swatch Internet Time."
kOj7g TIL com­pos­ing and ar­ran­ging mu­sic is partly ge­net­ically de­term­ined. Up to 30 percent of a musician's ability to compose and arrange music can be explained by genes in the cerebellar LTD pathway.
kpWB TIL in 2012 the NYPD declared a couple to be “professional agitators” because they filmed videos of police conducting stop-and-frisks and uploaded them to YouTube. Cops posted their mugshots in a stationhouse and warned officers to be on guard against them.
Eg85p TIL that Coney Island, in New York City, was most likely named by Dutch settlers after the large number of rabbits they found along its coast.
NwWE TIL that the lion’s habitat once extended as far north as Turkey and all the way from North Africa to India.