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Homesick student Kleon Papadimitriou biked 48 days to make it back home to his family during lockdown!

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woyjJ Today I learned that the 1989 Disney film "The Little Mermaid" is one of Lin-Manuel Miranda's favourite films, which is why he composed music for the 2023 remake. He also has a son named Sebastian, after the crab from the movie.
E19Xo TIL Charles Darwin's grandad, Erasmus Darwin, conceived a rocket engine in 1779. It used oxygen and hydrogen for fuel, the same fuels NASA's rockets use today, 200+ years later.
Oord1 TIL that the shortcut SHIFT + TAB moves you back to the previous input field. I no longer have to TAB 10 times to get back to the field I skipped
XEmj6 TIL that Nazi leaders were hard supporters of animal rights. 90% of the actual animal laws in Germany come from the laws that the Nazi’s passed.
Y7x6d TIL about the surgical procedure hymenoplasty, which restores or repairs the hymen. It’s most often used by women living in cultures where it’s existence or nonexistence can be the difference between shaming, ostracism and in some cases death