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TIL March 6 is the official “Day of the Dude”, in the belief system of “Dudeism”

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M7VNV TIL: That steam locomotives were invented before the bicycle. (1804 vs 1817)
9w6j7 TIL that Major League Baseball Player Moe Berg was recruited by American Intelligence to assassinate Werner Von Heisenberg during WWII
vekD TIL the Super Mario Bros. movie directors were so disliked by the studio and actors that they locked them out of the editing room when filming finished
epwX4 TIL that potato plants are poisonous. The part that we eat is the only edible part of the whole plant. It's also a member of the nightshade family.
QN9dp TIL that from 1810 to 1812, Jonathan Lambert lived on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha with two other men and no women, declaring it his micronation