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TIL a poem by Simon Armitage removed more than two tonnes of pollution from the environment. The poem In Praise Of Air, on display at Sheffield University, was printed on specially treated material capable of purifying the air around it through catalytic oxidation.

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5YbVn TIL that despite stealing $2.2 million dollars and being a convicted felon for being a perpetrator of the largest public school embezzlement in American history, Frank Tassone receives a pension of $173,495 a year for life because New York State does not bar felons from collecting pensions.
d8RA9 TIL all corgis suffer from achondroplastic dwarfism
QJ7JX TIL anthropodermic bibliopegy is the old act of binding books in human skin. An odd example was found in Harvard’s library, where a Bristol police record was bound in the very skin of a hanged murderer.
6PMm TIL on July 30, 1971, the worst air disaster to that date occurred when a Fighter Pilot Trainee collided with a Boeing passenger jet over Japan. All 162 people aboard the jet died, but the fighter pilot ejected before impact and walked away unscathed.
v18k8 TIL That a 99-year-old war veteran who is walking 100 laps of his garden before he turns 100 has raised more than £12m for the NHS.