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TIL that Arkeology is the study of Noah's Ark.

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wP7Y TIL that tiny pseudoscorpions (about 4mm) live inside old books, effectively protecting them by eating booklice and dustmites
kOvwm TIL that during the USA's "Great Depression" in the 1930s, librarians in Kentucky rode around on horseback, dispensing books to over 50,000 families and 155 public schools: "one librarian had to hike her 18-mile route when her mule died"
YpAn7 TIL A synthesizer repairman accidentally had a 9-hour acid trip after picking at a crystalline structure on an old sythesizer from the 60s which turned out to be LSD. A LSD researcher explained that LSD can remain potent for decades and be absorbed through the skin.
pYadG TIL that, after being struck on a foggy river in 1914, a passenger ship sunk in under 15 minutes, rendering useless the fact that there actually were enough lifeboats. Over a thousand perished.
epDAk TIL there were two serial killers in the USA with the last name of Bundy