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TIL All of Mr Rogers' sweaters were knitted by his mom

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PYMaJ TIL how the UK military recruiter mistook "cryptogamist" (algae expert) for "cryptogramist" and sent Geoffrey Tandy to join the code breakers; he wasn't so useful until captured German papers arrived water-logged; with his expertise they salvaged them, cracked the code, and hastened the victory.
vPVnL TIL about the sport Slippery Stairs where contestants try to climb stairs covered in lube
m1Jev TIL that not only is the text of the original Draconian laws lost to us, but also that is was merely a codification of preexisting oral law and that it wasn't in fact extraordinarily harsh for those times
Yp40A TIL about the huge luxury houseboat industry on the massive rice paddy network in Kerala India
Pk7L TIL that a “moment” actually is a specific amount of time. About 90 seconds