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TIL Christians can’t eat shellfish
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TIL about the Potoooooooo horse, a famous 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse who, as the story goes, got his name from the stable boy who misheard the name "Potatoes" and heard it literally as "pot-eight-o's" and wrote it out as such. The owner found it so funny that he kept the name.
grLO7
TIL in Leave the World Behind (2023), a coordinated attack of 1) disabling communications and transportation, 2) synchronized chaos via disinformation, and 3) civil war and societal collapse was the most cost effective way of destabilizing a dysfunctional society.
VMRVZ
TIL that Hotmail used to be written HoTMaiL because it was designed to include the letters HTML.
6ElnY
TIL that during the women’s gymnastics all-around final at the 2000 Olympics, the vaulting table was accidentally set 5 centimeters too low. Half of the gymnasts had vaulted before organizers fixed the error, and many of them had crashes.
neRMd
TIL halibut are born with one eye and nostril on each side of it’s head, but the left eye and nostril slowly migrate to the right side as the fish matures. This happens because the bones on the left grow faster than the right.