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TIL There exists a game where you solve 7-dimensional Rubik’s Cubes

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xVJQb TIL in 1918 at a Boy Scout medal ceremony, Teddy Roosevelt attempted to make a joke at Theodor Geisel’s expense by exclaiming “What’s this boy doing here?” but it backfired, causing the future Doctor Seuss to develop a lifelong fear of crowds.
WP9Y TIL Warren Buffet went to The Wharton School at UPenn at age 16, but then transferred out because he felt he knew more than his professors
P1YNn Today I learned that there is an art/practice of reading code when you haven't been given a cypher called cryptanalysis. Cryptanalysis is decryption and cryptography is encryption
D1PxY TIL John Lennon's comment 'More popular than Jesus' created a huge backlash in the US Bible belt, with one Texas radio station holding a large bonfire of Beatles albums only for a lightning bolt to strike its transmission tower the following day and sending the station temporarily off the air.
yQjrw TIL in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The actress who played Aunt Bethany was the original voice of Betty Boop. This was her last movie.