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TIL Mark Twain despised Jane Austen and was quoted as saying: “Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”

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OoWm4 TIL that Lawrence Public Library in Kansas has one of the biggest collection of videogames in the libraries'world, from PS3/X360 till next gen. Users can loan them and play at home for free and they also send them to other US libraries with Interlibrary Loan service.
GYOl1 TIL: In order to get improvements in their job security amidst the emergence of a rival bus line, bus drivers in Okayama, Japan decided to go on strike in a unique way in 2018. While on strike, they supported the community by continuing to drive their routes, but simply not charging customers.
9wQj6 TIL Reynolds Wrap was founded in 1919 to make foil wrappers for the new concept of packs of cigarettes (Camel, 1913) of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., who later expanded to include Winston, Salem, Newport, Pall Mall. The Founder of Reynolds Wrap was the nephew of R.J. Reynolds, Richard Reynolds.
57jn TIL that a series of experiments by psychologists at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Toronto showed that upper class people are less charitable and more likely to cheat.
7rA9M TIL That Trippy Green Code in ‘The Matrix’ Is Just a Bunch of Sushi Recipes