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TIL a man named KurtJMac has been walking to the edge of the world in Minecraft since 2011 to raise money for charity. Since he began over 8 years ago, he's helped raise over $400,000. He is about 25% of the way there.

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78M1O TIL: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
Lkp9Q TIL that In order to supply water to the parks of the Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV ordered the construction of the machine Marly to pump water from the Seine located 10 km from the castle with a drop of 150 meters. This machine, considered one of the most complex of its time worked for 133 years
oB5QE TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien orginally set out to just create a language. Elfish. He then figured that that language needed a history. That history needed a world etc. Which eventually led to him writing LOTR in said world.
GmQG TIL: Chuck Taylor, of Converse All-Star fame, was only a shoe salesman, and was simply paid commission on what he sold, and had an expense account with Converse. That’s it.
Y7kaW TIL Henri LaMothe used to dive from a platform 40 feet in the air into a kiddie pool filled with 15 inches of water. He continued doing this well into his 70's