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TIL that M.O stands for modus operandi.
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TIL that Ferdinand Cheval, a postman, every day, for 35 years, picked up stones during his daily mail round. He used the stones to build ‘the perfect palace’, one of the most beautiful amateur architectural works known today.
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TIL in the months before his sudden death, former Mythbuster Grant Imahara built a fully animatronic Baby Yoda. Having spent 3 months of his personal time designing, programming, and 3D printing the project, he intended to bring it to hospitals to cheer up sick children.
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TIL In 1963, Heineken created a beer bottle that could also function as a brick to build houses in impoverished countries after he took a trip to the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea and discovered that he could barely walk 15 feet on the beach without stepping on a littered Heineken bottle.
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TIL that the phrase, "The empire on which the sun never sets." originally referred to the Spanish Empire.
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TIL: That certain 5400 RPM hard drives allow physically proximate hackers to cause malfunctions and system crashes using Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation music video