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TIL That Havard has books that are bound in human skin.

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WkL7B TIL Brandenn E. Bremmer was a musical prodigy who taught himself to read at 18 months and played the piano at age 3 He completed high school at age 10 and commited suicide at 14.
aWR0 TIL Jim Varney had a photographic memory and would shoot up to 25 “Ernest” commercials a day inserting different product names during different takes.
AN94a TIL that there was a man who survived the towers collapsing on 9/11, then after walking aimlessly through the city had a chance encounter with the entire cast of Everybody loves Raymond who then housed, fed, and clothed him until he could return home safely to Staten Island the next morning .
nA09 TIL Galileo Galilei was finally charged and convicted by the Church more likely for ridiculing the Pope than for his heliocentrism viewpoint
b9nd0 TIL in 2015 scientist dropped a microphone 6 miles down into the Mariana Trench, the results where a surprise, instead of quiet, they heard sounds of earthquakes, ships, the distinct moans of baleen whales and the overwhelming clamor of a category 4 typhoon that just happened to pass overhead.