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TIL that there is an annual literature contest that challenges writers to come up with the worst possible opening sentence to a novel.

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GAN8E TIL that woodlice don't pee. They get rid of their nitrogenous waste by releasing ammonia gas through tiny holes in their shells, which gives them a pungent smell.
ADZYg TIL that three original transcripts of the minutes of the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc still exist.
pY548 TIL There's a School in Washington State in which their school bus has to cut through Canada twice a day every day to take kids to and from school
VMVBG Today I learned that 3 MIT computer scientists noticed the lack of peer review for submitted papers in phony journals, and created a fake CS paper software to prove how fraud the organizations were. It worked.
N7Jdb Til that there is an anime adaptation of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'