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TIL Sesame Street had a 9/11-inspired episode about a fire in Mr. Hooper's store

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7rpLr TIL when writing a Torah scroll, "an error of a single letter, ornamentation, or symbol of the 304,805 stylized letters that make up the Hebrew Torah text renders it unfit to use"
YV4d TIL Nikola Tesla was born 159 years ago today during a fierce lightning storm. Happy Nikola Tesla Day!
WwMX TIL that British prisoners of war during WW2 were a huge morale drain on the German people. And often they’d get their captors arrested by filing fallacious complaints about their treatment in the camps.
OoJDL TIL that Japanese scientists had cultivated enough CowPox to infect all the people in the United States and were ready to deploy it via ocean crossing balloons which had already delivered bombs but Emperor Hirohito did not permit it.
l77jr TIL that about one in 2,000 people in the UK is a carrier of variant CJD, or "mad cow" disease, linked to eating contaminated beef. Relatively few people who catch the infectious agent develop symptoms and it's unknown if they can transmit it to others.