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TIL that there was an episode of Mr. Rogers where he learned to breakdance

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vYbx TIL A religion on a pacific island worships American soldiers and prays for their return
4MKN TIL after iced trees flattened her wood home, a woman in small-town Mississippi brought in a Boeing 727 to use as a house. It is anchored on the back end while the tip hangs out over a lake and features a Jacuzzi in the former cockpit
x65Po TIL That primes numbers used in cryptography aren't 100% primes. They are numbers that has a false positive rate of less than one in a million billion billion of not being primes.
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