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TIL Key and Peele were the gangsters in Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy”

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OoBB7 TIL The Chinese typewriter "Ming Kwai" could type over 90,000 characters, however due to it failing during a press conference it never went to production (despite it working the next day).
Zp81p TIL Leo Marks, WWII cryptographer, discovered that Dutch intelligence was compromised when coded messages came through with zero typos or grammar errors. The grammar Nazis were, in fact, actual Nazis.
oMAr TIL that there is a rare snail that was named in honour of Steve Irwin, “Crikey steveirwini.”
koRg TIL In 1861 a slave took over on a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He later was given the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war he bought the house he was a slave in, and became a US congressman.
OoPde TIL NY Rangers fan still chant "Potvin Sucks" at every game, against every team, even though Dennis Potvin retired from the NY Islanders in 1988.