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TIL an autodidact with limited formal education, Joseph Stalin was a voracious reader, amassing a personal library of over 20,000 books, with a particular interest in history. He enjoyed classical music, owned around 2,700 records, and often attended the Bolshoi Theatre.

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7e9M TIL there is a church in Rome that is lined with skeletons and has a plaque in 3 languages that reads “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
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4XjJg TIL in the 90's there was a global semiconductor shortage not caused by a once-in-a-century pandemic or a spike in the automotive industry.... But by Tamagotchis.
R5r7a TIL Willow Creek, California is known as " Bigfoot Capital of the World" and has a Bigfoot Museum housing 30 plaster cast footprints, including one measuring 16 inches. It is close to Bluff Creek, where the famous Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot footage was filmed
Y9PZ TIL the difference between hawks and falcons is hawks kill their prey with their feet, while falcons kill using a “tooth” on the side of their beaks.