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TIL authors in Finland receive library royalties that are almost as much per borrowed book as the royalty for each paperback sold

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R7Oja TIL there is a disgusting food museum in Berlin which shows disgusting dished from all around the world. They even have a taste bar for visitors to try some of them!
epDm5 TIL that dogs have specific tastebuds fine-tuned to the taste of water, so they experience it differently than humans who often describe it as “tasteless”
0wRER TIL that in 2004, police discovered a fully equipped movie theatre (with seats, a large movie screen, projection equipment, and a bar) in one of the caverns of the Catacombs of Paris, and the source of this theatre remains unknown.
yQROw TIL in 2018, an electrical engineer on board the Bellingshausen Research station in Antartica stabbed a fellow coworker in the chest multiple times because the colleague had been giving away the endings of books available in the research station’s library.
EgyX TIL Bill Murray was up for the role of Willy Wonka in the Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he didn’t take the role because he doesn’t check his voice mail very often.