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TIL: that there are 200 fireproof copies (asbestos binding) of Fahrenheit 451.

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NE4P TIL Anthropologists believe cats approached humans on their own terms 12,000 years ago. The first agricultural societies stored food that attracted mice, the cats decreased the rodent population by eating them, and a mutual relationship began.
a8evA TIL that Benjamin Franklin, One of the Founding Fathers Was a Postmaster General for the United States Postal Service When it Was Founded in 1775
X0gJD TIL after John Ruffo was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, his bail was set at $10 million. Most of his immediate family put their houses up as collateral to make bail. Ruffo then disappeared and the homes of his wife, mother, mother-in-law, and others were seized by the government.
OYw6 TIL Edgar Allan Poe’s “The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838) was about 4 shipwreck survivors stranded in a boat before they killed and ate a cabin boy–Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat was stranded with only 4 survivors. 3 of the men killed and ate the cabin boy, also named Richard Parker.
LkNXP TIL: The Nuremburg Code stipulates "voluntary, informed consent" for research participants, and experiments that might lead to death/disability are unacceptable. U.S.A. violated The Code throughout the 1950-70s w/ large scale releases of bacteria in NYC subway, on PA Turnpike, and National Airport.