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TIL Arnold Palmer and Mister Rogers were high school classmates.

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XEVyP TIL Frogfishes have a stocky appearance and rarely swim, preferring to clamber over the sea bottom using their fins as feet. Typically, they take cover lying in wait for prey, and then they strike extremely rapidly in as little as 6 milliseconds. They are found in most tropical oceans. (gif below)
eyjn TIL there’s a casino in Las Vegas that only opens for eight hours once every two years just to keep its casino license from lapsing.
XXw8 TIL that Carillo Fuentes, a Mexican drug lord, tried to get plastic surgery to avoid capture, but died during the operation. The bodies of his surgeons were found mutilated and encased in concrete four months later.
mxNlY TIL that, after binge-watching Breaking Bad, Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a letter to Bryan Cranston praising him for his portrayal of Walter White.
P1YNn Today I learned that there is an art/practice of reading code when you haven't been given a cypher called cryptanalysis. Cryptanalysis is decryption and cryptography is encryption