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TIL that Anthony Burgess wrote a musical version of his book "A Clockwork Orange", featuring music by himself and Beethoven as well as others

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KYm5w TIL that Alaska was bought for $7.2m (~$150m today)
DkND TIL that Charles Darwin sat on his theories about evolution for nearly 20 years, until Alfred Wallace discussed his own theories of evolution with mutual friends who pressed Darwin to publish so as to establish his priority in the concept
b99Lj TIL people occasionally find containers of butter in peat bogs that are hundreds of years old
mNjv TIL that up until very recently, the royal family of England did not carry cash. Prince William is the first to do so after having to borrow from Kate Middleton at a grocery store
Zbrp TIL the Ohio River is the most polluted waterway in the United States, with 32 million lbs of toxic discharges every year. Companies are not required to release the results of their chemical safety testing to the public, nor do they have to reveal how much of each chemical they are releasing.