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TIL Shel Silverstein, author and comic, wrote Johnny Cash’s hit song “A Boy Named Sue”

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mxMvv TIL That the founder of Adidas and the founder of Puma were brothers. They split up to form their own companies in 1948. They had a bitter rivalry that lasted until they died. Even today, both companies have their headquarters Herzogenaurach, Germany, the small town where both brothers grew up.
OG0jY TIL of The Divided Church at Kreuzbichl in Austria, which is divided into two sections with the viewing gallery and church seperated by an active road. Its thought to be the only seperated Church in the world.
awk1L TIL that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant generated electricity until December 2000, when reactor 3 was finally shut down.
ojjo TIL of Anglish, a form of English where no Latin based words are used, in favor of Germanic forms, such as using “wordstock” in place of “vocabulary.”
X0aBD TIL a man was sentenced to two years in jail after being caught cheating at poker by wearing infrared contact lenses that enabled him to see cards that were premarked with invisible ink. Security noticed his $95K winning streak because he twice folded hands that suggested he knew the dealer's cards.