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TIL Bill Nye holds a patent for improved ballet shoes

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x6975 TIL that Judith Love Cohen, an aerospace engineer, was troubleshooting problems with schematics on the day she went into labor, called her boss to let him know she had fixed the problem and then delivered Jack Black.
X0wME TIL shrikes will impale their prey on spikes to eat or save them for later.
7mbP TIL of a notorious driver in Ireland who has evaded the police until his identity was discovered to be Prawo Jazdy — Polish for “Driver’s License”
m1XZR TIL in 2001, an American computer engineer emailed Saddam Hussein and received a 10-page personal reply
ADaWx TIL There is a government program called "Every Kid in a Park" that gives a free year-long national park pass to every fourth grade student that prints one out