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TIL Stephen Hawking once dined in the company of Edward Teller,pioneer of the hydrogen bomb, and typed “He is Stupid” in his speech synthesizer without bothering to lower the volume

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y8dv TIL that there’s a guy that’s a writer, programmer, war correspondent, photographer, boxer, flying trapeze, ultramarathon runner and broadcaster with fellowships of National Geographic… and he invented the word “podcast”.
vPYED TIL A Dog's Nose is Its Fingerprint
9m6M TIL that in the Bible, Nimrod was a mighty hunter, but Bugs Bunny used it to refer to Elmer Fudd sarcastically, and generations of kids thought it was a synonym for idiot or moron.
e0DKE TIL there was once a LEGO game in devolpement that would allow people to make anything they wanted out of Lego bricks, but it was never completed because they couldn’t stop people making dicks, even with a dedicated ‘dong detection’ team.
gMV0A TIL that New Yorkers have a bad history with quarantine, a mob burning the first quarantine hospital to the ground