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TIL that John Francis Peggotty was an armed dwarf bandit who roamed the South Australian Coorong region riding an ostrich, armed with two ornamental pistols and wearing stolen jewellery draped around his neck.

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645l TIL that that last man to cross over Niagara Falls on a tightrope was required to submit his passport to border agents upon arrival.
EoKd TIL, Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing. The deceleration is occurring at about 17 milliseconds per 100 years. This will have the effect of lengthening our days, but it’s happening so slowly that it could be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.
DV8P TIL after discovering a bug in video poker machines, two men used it in order to win half a million dollars. When sued on federal hacking charges, their lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They kept all the money.
N7KBJ TIL That Spaceballs was originally going to be titled Planet Moron, but was changed when a film titled Morons from Outer Space was released; Spaceballs, despite the assumed innuendo, was a result of needing “space” in the title and Brooks considering it one of his trademark “screwball” comedies.
XEAZX TIL of The rule of Threes. You can survive three minutes of severe bleeding, without breathable air (unconsciousness generally occurs), or in icy water. You can survive three hours in extreme heat or cold. You can survive three days without drinkable water. You can survive three weeks without food.