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TIL that Doctor Seuss coined the word “nerd”

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VBKjG TIL about Belphegors Prime number, 1000000000000066600000000000001. One, followed by 13 zeroes, 666, another 13 zeroes, and one again. It’s 31 digits long and is also a palindromic prime number. Discovered by mathematician Harvey Dubner, Belphegors prime is named after the demon of inventiveness.
wLa5W TIL About Scott Loxley a member of the 501st Stormtrooper Legion, a Star Wars costuming/charitable fundraising organization, who walked across Australia in full Stormtrooper armor in order to raise almost $100 000 for charity.
4XjVX TIL of the $23 million dollar toilets designed by NASA for deep space missions. With odor control being a serious issue, NASA pays certified sniffers to smell the toilets after they've been used to evaluate odor-control measures. The lead engineer calls them the "unsung heroes of the space program".
kOdp4 TIL that 2 men were convicted of theft after taking over a thousand copies of free newspapers and selling them to a recycling plant - indicating that something given away for free can be stolen.
JmW4 TIL The curvature of the Earth led US surveyors to put curves/bends in roads every 24 miles