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TIL In 2011 an artist placed 4 frat boys in a plexi box with 30 cases of beer, a bucket, and a Sharpie

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KOkyw TIL that due to DVORAK keyboards being laid out differently, they produce different keysmashes. This has caused users of DVORAK to quit keysmashing because "the layout of their keyboards made patterns which they created "socially ineligible""
lQAN TIL that whenever acclaimed author Douglas Adams faced writer’s block, he reminded himself that he was the only student ever to be awarded a “10/10” in creative writing by his teacher, Frank Halford.
OoMPX TIL that after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of hair stylists and alpaca farmers donated over 19 warehouses worth of cut hair to absorb the spilled oil.
Jx0m TIL Leonhard Euler was the first mathematician to designate the function by writing it f(x).
wLxEJ TIL Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer to the making of the movie Jurassic Park (1993) than they did to the existence of Stegosaurus.