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TIL that two libraries in Portugal allow bats to nest in them, because they eat bugs that would eat the books.

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8aZ0P TIL the adhesive used on Post-It notes was developed in research at 3M by a scientist Dr. Silver as a failed super strength adhesive. For years Silver could not think of a use for it until his fellow scientist Art Fry considered its use to hold notes in his hymnal to mark pages for choir practice.
dD8xK TIL that the medals John Lennon wore on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were owned by the Grandfather of drummer Pete Best who was kicked out of the band years prior.
a8xBL TIL that Thomas Dewey was so widely expected to win the 1948 Election against President Harry Truman that James Maloney, the Head of Secret Service, dispatched most of Truman's Secret Service detail to New York to prepare to guard Dewey. A few weeks after Truman won re-election, he dismissed Maloney
lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.
wLJy1 TIL each soldier in the British army was rationed 3 sheets of toilet paper per day in WW2. American soldiers were rationed to 22,5 sheets per day.