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TIL that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA.

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MDDW TIL that it is called a “shift” key because on typerwritters uppercase letters were typed by holding down a key that would literally shift the carriage so that a different part of the type bar—the part on which an uppercase letter was printed—would hit the ribbon.
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