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TIL that Douglas Adams came up with the idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field holding a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe.

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kQBW TIL there is a part of Route 66 in New Mexico where the grooves in the road play “America the Beautiful” as you drive over it.
rRoKy Today I Learned Multiple of different variants of Chess around the Globe. Shogi is the Japanese version with an official player league/organization. Fun Fact Shogi allows for eliminated pieces to be re-positioned on the board allowing for an entire different end-game strategy.
rL51 TIL that Kermit The Frog is left handed. (This is true of most Muppets. A puppeteer usually operates the puppet’s head and mouth with his or her dominant hand while the other hand operates the puppet’s hand or arm. Since most people are right-handed, most Muppets are left-handed.)
J11pj TIL the hula hoop isn't simply a fad from the 1950s. Hoops have been twirled by adults and children since at least 500 BC
grwZ8 Til during The Carrington Event, the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, on 1–2 September 1859, some telegraph operators were able to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.