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TIL of the Mole Man of Hackney who spent 40 years digging under his home in London creating tunnels as long as 18m and as deep as the water table

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kOGw7 TIL The first baseball hats were made of straw. They were first worn by the New York Knickerbockers on April 24, 1849. But within a few years the team began to wear a cap made of fine merino wool. It featured a crown, with an attached visor or bill.
65LJ TIL that during the film The Big Lebowski, the Dude consumes 12 drinks and smokes 5 joints. There is an entire community of people dedicated to watching the movie and mimicking the consumption of the exact same menu of food, alcohol and drugs. The Dude abides.
a8jBy TIL: Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants.
wo8aM TIL: Garbage trucks in Taiwan use Für Elise to let people know that the garbage pickup is happening, in kind of the same way ice cream trucks use tunes in the U.S. to get people to line up for frozen dessert.
74lO TIL Astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches after being in space for a year.