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TIL of the 1800s ‘Berners Street Hoax’, where a prankster managed to get countless people, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, to show up at 54 Berners Street all on the same day. Police had to be called to try and corral the hundreds of tradesmen and visitors as the street descended into chaos.

p8R8 TIL penguins are one of the most sexually deviant animals.
1GZV TIL NAZI Germany had a anti-tobacco movement, their research was silenced after the war.
9YNd7 TIL that before the 20th Century the word “computer” meant a person who performed large mathematical calculations by hand.
YpX87 TIL there hasn’t been a single verified death by spider bite in the USA in 40 years and Australia in 50 years
vydr TIL Steve Jobs’ faith in alternative remedies cost him his life.