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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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awb8b TIL that Drinking water with meals has no effect on the stomach
KYyJR TIL Sonic Youth’s highly experimental 2000 album NYC Ghosts & Flowers was the result of the bands irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals being stolen in 1999.
dD0a7 TIL 20/20 Vision doesn't mean you have perfect vision - it means your vision is normal, and you can see at 20ft what an average person can see at 20ft. The ideal is 20/15, which means you can see at 20ft what an average person can see at 15ft.
OXxe TIL the Grinch laments that he has had to put up with the Whos’ celebration of Christmas for 53 years. Dr. Seuss was 53 when he wrote the book and he also drove a car with a license plate that read “GRINCH”.
vPlrR TIL of Loewe v. Lawlor, a 1908 Supreme Court case which outlawed secondary boycotts in the US. Union members were ordered to pay $234,000 ($5.8 M today) for organizing a boycott.