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TIL that when Noam Chomsky was asked to demonstrate his point that sentences could be grammatical yet nonsensical, he came up with the sentence: “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

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jNNXv TIL a group of small (1 mm) adult Caenorhabditis elegans worms, living in petri dishes enclosed in aluminum canisters, survived reentry and impact with the ground and were recovered weeks after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003, found alive on April 28 of the same year.
OGQVa TIL in 1837 a blacksmith and tool maker in Illinois was gaining attention over his innovations to the plow. His self cleaning steel headed plow tilled the tough midwest soil with ease and aided the migration into the Great Plain. That blacksmith's name was John Deere.
DQD4D TIL that the world record for the longest Uber ride is 2,798 miles, set by YouTuber Mathew Beem in July 2021
WkxW8 TIL that nimrod didn't orginially mean idiot, he was a great hunter. The meaning changed when Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd it sarcastically and an entire generation of kids thought it meant moron.
LkRkZ TIL about the Interrobang (‽). A punctuation mark that should be used in place of ?!, ?!?, or any other such combination. It was first proposed for use in 1962 by the head of an advertising agency who simply believed it looked better to use only a single punctuation mark.