Top books on r/todayilearned

Command and Control
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Skunk Works
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Natural Harvest
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Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet
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Escape from Camp 14
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The Psychopath Test
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Born to Run
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Going Clear
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The Devil in the White City
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Genghis Khan
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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Ghost in the Wires
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The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
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Three Felonies A Day
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The Day the World Came to Town
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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The Professor and the Madman
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The Millionaire Next Door
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A Higher Call
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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Between Heaven and Hell
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Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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The Missionary Position
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Mig Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko
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King Leopold's Ghost
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The Last Battle
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The Creature From Jekyll Island
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
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Salt: A World History
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea &...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Sex at Dawn
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Under the Banner of Heaven
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The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
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Ordinary Men
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True Light
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Cronos
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The New Jim Crow
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The Science of Interstellar
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The Jefferson Bible
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden...
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Motel of the Mysteries
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Day Of Deceit
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10 Little Rubber Ducks Board Book
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The Disappearing Spoon
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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The Unthinkable
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The Vegetarian Myth
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the...
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A Village Lost and Found
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller...
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If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
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The Fourth Sex
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Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths
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Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
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How To Avoid Huge Ships
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, The Secret WWII...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With...
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Anathem
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
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The Clitoral Truth
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Napoleon: A Life
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Bitter Fruit
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Combatting Cult Mind Control
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Counting Coup
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Beyond Belief
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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The Power Broker
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[(Word Freak
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God's Chinese Son
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Steve Jobs
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Children of Time
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How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)
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The Cuckoo's Egg
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DAEMON
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Mig Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko
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Young Stalin
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One Nation Under God
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The Rape of Nanking
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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The Poisoner's Handbook
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Console Wars
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