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TIL Scientists can read ancient sealed documents and book without opening them

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RO4a TIL: in 2011, United States business incurred $29 billion dollars in direct costs because of patent trolls.
kJ4ve TIL there was a plan to gild the Statue of Liberty in gold.
newDr TIL that Animal House was filmed at the University of Oregon on the condition that it not be identified in the movie
VBo50 TIL that Edgar Allan Poe at age 27 married his 13-year old cousin, whom he loved more as a sister. (By then she was already a widow, and apparently they got married so he could provide for her).
d8GNE TIL in 1896, two locomotives were crashed on purpose as a publicity stunt. Two spectators were killed by the boiler explosion. The responsible agent was fired and reemployed on the next day because of lacking negative publicity.