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TIL Codex Seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini. It is written in an obscure, imaginary language, and has been compared to the still undeciphered Voynich manuscript.

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d8lEj TIL that “frito paws” or “corn chip paws” can be attributed to Pseudomonas and Proteus bacteria.
1aQ08 TIL as of 2019, 2 million Americans do not have running water in their home.
lr65 [TIL] The Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air it would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away
6EMbm TIL that Kostas Sarantidis is a Greek-Vietnamese soldier who fought with the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. He is the only foreign soldier awarded Vietnamese honour "Hero of the People's Armed Forces"
epENg TIL that the game Snooker was invented by a British Army officer in India called Neville Chamberlain (Not the former Prime Minister). The name "Snooker" came from and was used as a derogatory term for first year, inexperiended soldiers