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TIL that the words can be drawn in such a way that they remain the same when viewed from different directions/perspectives. Ex: SWIMS (viewed from upside down it remains the same). These are called as ambigrams.

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M77Y8 TIL Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, who played the parents on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," were born on the exact same date - June 21, 1947.
1aXN8 TIL that Australia litterally lost a Primeminister in 1967. He went swimming and never came back. A swimming center was later named after him.
o0b7 TIL the man who invented the Super Soaker and the Nerf gun, invested his fortune in R&D and has created ceramic solid state batteries with 3 times the power of the best lithium-ion batteries
9wp7p TIL Archimedes is recorded to have died in a math related killing. The most common story is that he was too busy solving a math problem to follow orders from Roman soldiers and was killed, or that he was found with scientific instruments that were mistaken as valuables and killed for them.
9wJDD TIL that the Mary Celeste was found adrift with the crew and one life boat missing. Food, alcohol and personal items were undisturbed. The crew were never found.