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TIL that the names for upper-case and lower-case type come from the physical storage method for typeset letters.

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rR4kx TIL that Oscar the Grouch was originally orange. He turned green after he ‘went on vacation to Swamp Mushy Muddy’.
XPX8 TIL that Louis Armstrong almost wrote a second autobiography only about marijuana.
jE0a TIL the 3 numbers on an egg carton denote what day of the year it was packaged. 221 (out of 365) is August 9th!
b9RV4 TIL of Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize problems). He later quit his job, turned down the $1 million prize as well as the Fields Medal, and is thought to have withdrawn from the field of mathematics entirely.
VaN4 TIL that during the San Francisco Police Department Strike of 1975, the SFPD clashed with the law and the Mayor. Eventfully a bomb was detonated on the Mayor’s lawn with a sign reading “Don’t Threaten Us.”