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TIL Bill Gates bought the Most Expensive Book in the World, Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester for nearly $50 million.

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e07k6 TIL that many fire departments, including the San Francisco FD, still prefer wooden ladders because they are non-conductors of electricity, the best natural insulator against heat, and only burn on the outside while the centre of wood remains solid and strong.
l71Er TIL Trinity College Dublin's oldest PhD graduated at 84 with her thesis "Harry Potter and the Unconscious Dimension" She wondered, why are the Harry Potter books, which are written for children, so popular with adults?
xV6pg TIL Russians were making color photos over 100 years ago.
xVow5 TIL the word “fuck” used in all 9 parts of speech; noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection, and article
4kOdX TIL: About Saburō Kurusu, a Japanese diplomat to the United States during the Pearl Harbor attack. He was unaware of the attack and was on his way to the Secretary of State to deliver a reply to the previous diplomatic communications.