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TIL: Mr Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating him.

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OG77e TIL: There is an infamous 1855 book, "English as She Is Spoke" which a very poor Portuguese to English guidebook which became popular for it's unintentional humor due to the broken English. Examples include, "What do him?", "I have mind to vomit", and "The walls have hearsay."
8ZZ4 TIL Andreas Grassl, a german man found in England in 2005, remained unidentified for four months due to his refusal to speak, communicating instead through drawing and playing the piano. This mysterious story spawned media attention and speculation all across the world, dubbing him as the Piano Man
Q4QL TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who avoided doctors for 65 years after he was tested on by Auschwitz “doctor” Josef Mengele who, among other things, removed his kidney without anesthesia.
gr79L TIL that your height is practically the same as your arm span (the length between your fingertips with the arms extended)
6JwQ TIL There’s a tree that owns itself, and cannot be legally tore down for urban development