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TIL Theodore Hook & the Berners Street hoax

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x6oe5 TIL When fixing an issue becomes impeded by a smaller issue, and that issue by yet another related issue, and so on until you find yourself fixing something completely unrelated to the original issue, you are "Yak Shaving".
ADLZd TIL in 2015, a metal detectorist in England found a large hoard of coins dating back to 879AD, depicting both the King of the Anglo-Saxons and the King of the Vikings on the same coin, suggesting a previously unknown alliance
ANPDo TIL that, despite using the same alphabet (Hangul), North Korea and South Korea order the letters differently, with NK placing new letters at the end of the alphabet and SK grouping similar letters together
0d5nL TIL about the "Three Hares Motif". The three hares is a circular motif appearing in sacred sites from China, the Middle East and churches and synagogues of Europe. ts origins and original significance are uncertain, as are the reasons why it appears in such diverse locations.
J18mk TIL that the scenes in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse that feature Gwen Stacy in her universe were inspired by Disney's Cinderella