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TIL John Hart attempted to reform English spelling over 200 years before Noah Webster

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x6vW5 TIL Diogenes was a Greek philosopher who was known for living in a ceramic jar, disrupting Plato's lessons by eating loudly, urinating on people who insulted him, and pointing his middle finger at random people.
YN1r TIL the head of the Nazi SA “brownshirt” paramilitary group was gay, appointed other gays to prominent Nazi SA positions & was so close to Hitler, he was the only person who called him by nicknames like “Adi” instead of “mein fuhrer”
PW9G TIL Early in it’s existence, the producers of Mystery Science Theater 3000 encouraged viewers to make copies and give them to friends in order to expand viewership and increase demand. The closing credits included the words “Keep circulating the tapes!”
5Vd0Q TIL the inventor of the electronic television also invented the first controlled nuclear fusion device
awvaM Pediatricians in the UK have finally answered one of life’s grand riddles: Just how long would it take for a Lego toy accidentally swallowed by someone to gracefully make its way back out? It is approximately 1.71 days.