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TIL: Computers used to have a "Super" key, as well as a "Meta" and a "Hyper" key.

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DGND TIL a mason in 1700’s Jerusalem left his wooden ladder behind after doing some work on a church and now it can’t be moved without the agreement and permission of six different Christian leaders.
EgDaV TIL there is a firm sequence of adjectives in English that native speakers use but rarely know about. The order is opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose. For instance you would say “small red Japanese commuter car” not “commuter Japanese red small car”.
6pJW TIL the “Tree That Owns Itself” is a white oak tree in Athens, GA, that is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it. According to newspapers, a deed written by Colonel William Jackson was written to the tree, giving ownership of the land to itself in the 1800s.
YkNZ TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.
N5w6 TIL in 1997 an artist named Howard Hallis started drawing a literal ‘Picture of Everything’, it took 13 years to complete, stands at 15 x 14 feet and apparently the only thing it doesn’t feature is Hitler, and he wanted to sell it for $250,000.