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TIL an underground street artist movement that began in Texas known as "Knitta Please" and artists simply known as Knittas. They used knitting in place of spray paint for graffiti tagging. Their was to make street art "warm and fuzzy."

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0jrj Til there was a man who determined such advanced mathematics 100 years ago that it took until recently for the scientific community to understand it, and it is now a part of string theory. He had no college degree and failed out of college because he was too focused on actually doing things.
4X8GX TIL in 2003 there was a tv show called “There’s something about Miriam” that featured six men wooing 21-year-old Mexican model Miriam without revealing that she was a pre-operative trans woman until the final episode.
ePlD TIL Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy directed and produced the 80′s classic movie Three Men and a Baby. Highly illogical.
69QoQ TIL about the only double barrel cannon in the world. When it was its first tested during the American Civil War, the chain snapped immediately and one ball tore into a nearby cabin, knocking down its chimney; the other spun off erratically and struck a nearby cow, killing it instantly.
nLWd TIL The rock at the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago.