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TIL Paul McCartney covered his own album “Ram” entirely in an “Easy Listening” format under the name Percy Thrillington.

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ADo1g TIL the Library of Congress has multiple crowdsourcing projects where anyone can help digitize historical documents. Active projects include transcribing letters and other writings from Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, and Walt Whitman.
5V9gD TIL Charles Thacker was one of the lead designers of Xerox Alto in the early 1970s, the first modern personal computer released. Thacker joined Microsoft in 1997 and designed the hardware for Microsoft's Tablet PC
neEZr TIL that H.H. Holmes, considered the first American serial killer, build a whole hotel with secret rooms for murder ant torture purposes, where more than 200 victims could have been killed.
neO6W TIL about Marcus Licinius Crassus, an ancient Roman who was the richest man in his time in history. He gained his wealth largely through slaves, politics, and real estate. In mockery of his greed, melted gold was poured in his mouth after his death.
OM57 TIL in 1836 a group of young boys discovered a group of 17 miniature coffins buried in a cave outside Edinburgh, Scotland. The coffins contain tiny dolls, each individually dressed, and the coffins all differ in their decoration. No one knows who buried them, when, or why.