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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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ADpLo TIL of the Wifatch computer virus, that instead of installing malicious software actively protects infected units from attack.
KOggw TIL that the heart of the Buddhist monk who famously set himself ablaze in 1963 to protest of the Vietnamese government remained intact during both his self-immolation as well as his re-cremation.
M76V7 TIL that, in the first printed attestation of orangutans in western sources, Malays claimed the ape could talk but preferred not to “lest he be compelled to labour”
QNN1d TIL in 1868 Australia’s first touring cricket company consisted of 13 Aboriginal men from the Jardwadjali, Gunditjimara and Wotjobaluk nations in Australia. The men traveled to England to play 47 matches and were coached / captained by ex all-England cricketer Charles Lawrence
J1gnv TIL that Rutgers University is the only university in the US that was one of the original colonial colleges, a land-grant institution, and a state university.