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TIL the most expensive mansion ever built in the US ($179,925,000), was demolished 16 years after completion when the owner’s widow sold the property to a developer.

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oR4jW TIL the most widely read Nigerian novelists writing in English, including Helon Habila, Teju Cole, Adichie, reside outside of Nigeria. Starting from Chinua Achebe, novels written by African authors were almost always published in the West first
wA88 TIL that Africa’s true size isn’t shown on standard maps and it’s larger than China, West Europe, and the US combined
1a917 TIL that paper books still outsells e-books by a huge margin, even among young people.
xVpY1 TIL in a previous life the Buddha saw a tigress starving and about to eat her cubs. To save the cubs he lept from a cliff to allow the tigress to eat him.
m1JMv TIL that mini-horses are also employed as service animals and are protected in law much the same as a service dog.