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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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R5Bk7 TIL that, at one point in time, the Habsburg monarchy (predecessor of Austria-Hungary) occupied the territory of today's Belgium.
DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.
4Xa5X TIL Ancient Romans flooded the Colosseum for mock naval battles.
mJ1y TIL : There are a lot of sunken German U-Boats. Here’s a map of them all!
16kmX TIL that the Olympic Games used to be sponsored by and partnered with Tobacco companies