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TIL about Garden-Path Phrases such as "The old man the boat". They look wrong at first but they're 100% grammatically correct.

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6EZ9l TIL Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt is the only scientist to have explored the Moon’s surface. Because he was not a pilot, as all previous astronauts were, Dr. Schmitt attended a 53-week course in flight training, logging more than 2,100 hours flying time
P1LyZ TIL that the first Norman castle in England was built 15 years before the Norman Conquest