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TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. He was 4 ft tall at age 18, and 7 ft 8 at the time of his death at age 50.

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e0VML TIL the man who campaigned to legalise the potato in France then promoted it by keeping potatoes under armed guard to give the impression they were valuable and instructing the guards to accept any and all bribes by civilians wanting to steal them
wLZXJ TIL a trial by combat in medieval France took place between a King's bodyguard and a Greyhound. The Greyhound attacked the guard in the street so often that people suspected he had murdered the dog's owner. He confessed when the greyhound pinned him to the ground in the duel and was hung.
nW9MP TIL the Lost Deck technique for box girder bridges means the plywood decking placed on top of the girders is cast into the rebar and concrete of the highway surface. The plywood is never removed and "lost" in the process.
mBPy TIL the HTTP standard includes an error message 418: I’m a teapot. It is part of the standard detailing a protocol known as Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) and is supposed to be used when an attempt is made to brew coffee in a teapot instead of a coffee pot.
7rZjP TIL that while scientists were analyzing prehistoric worms recovered from permafrost, two 40,000 year old nematodes 'revived' and began moving and eating, making them the oldest multi-cellular life alive on Earth.