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TIL German art student hand-illuminated Silmarillion in the style of medieval monastery book

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G49Q TIL goats have been used in California for years to clear tall dry grass and reduce fire hazards.
yVX0w TIL that Elogio del Horizonte, a concrete sculpture in Spain has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet".
J1O6k TIL Nikola Tesla never married, but claimed to have fallen in love with a white pigeon. After its death, he told friends that he felt his life's work was over. “I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.”
XEpV8 TIL nearly the entire world uses one of 2 forms to say tea, basically derived from the Chinese words 'te' (ie Spanish & English) and 'cha' (ie Hindi & Russian), because of the way tea spread around the world from China. 'Cha' used in places where tea came by land and 'te' where imported over water
OK66 TIL: Mt. Everest came out to exactly 29,000 feet, but they made it 29,002 because they thought people wouldn’t believe the actual number was real and would assume it was rounded.