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TIL that the infamous font Comic Sans is easier to read than most fonts for dyslexic people.

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rda4 TIL Popsicle’s were invented by an 11 year old in 1905 when he left flavored soda on the porch with a stirring stick in it. When they froze he had a popsicle. He kept it secret for 18 years until he was old enough to create a patent
D1R8r Today I learned about Richard Overton, who in 1991 sued Anheuser-Busch (a liquor producer) for $10,000 because he wasn't getting more attractive women to like him after drinking beer, as he was shown in one of their ads.
EQ10 TIL the main Slim Jim factory shut down for good the day Randy Savage died
nWaAB TIL that Jim Jones was a committed socialist, and saw the church as a way to spread Marxism. Jones would tell his followers that "I am come as God Socialist", and even created his own baptismal formula, baptizing his converts "in the holy name of Socialism".
x6ajw TIL: If you cut 2 different sponges up, disaggregate them (push them through a sieve), and mix the 2 cell-slurries together - the sponge cells reassociate with their own cells, but not cells of the other species. This is being studied to understand tissue repair and transplant rejection.