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TIL Robert Frost's "A Road Less Traveled" was intended to be a humorous jab at an indecisive colleague. The poem's intent was to convey how both paths are basically the same with the same outcome, so you should just select one randomly and get the fuck on with it already.

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DQ95v TIL that the font Calibri has been instrumental in exposing document forgeries worldwide, revealing fake documents in cases ranging from the Pakistani 'Panama Papers' to a U.S. bankruptcy filing, because the font didn't exist during the dates the documents claimed to be from
nDnW TIL that when faced against 120 war elephants, Timur the Lame stuffed his camel’s satchels with wood/hay, lit them on fire and prodded them forward. The sight of flaming camels charging at them caused the elephants to turn around and stampede their own lines.
YpD6r TIL Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop sold "bio-frequency stickers" made of the "carbon material NASA uses to line space suits" they claimed would "rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies." When alerted to the product, NASA said their spacesuits weren’t even lined with carbon material.
Gr9G TIL that a song in the original Pokemon games contained sounds that were outside the adult hearing range (but within the child hearing range), which caused many conspiracy theories and online myths
0deGA TIL in October 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. Seed potatoes were grown in space using technology called quantum tubers developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combining with China’s agricultural techniques.