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Today I learned that there’s a community called “dwitter” where people compose 140 character long JavaScript programs to produce beautiful visuals and share them with each other

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yVvoM TIL that author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn) were next door neighbors.
1krV TIL that a police officer can be rejected from joining the force for having too high of an IQ score.
7jnx TIL the pirate Hayreddin “Red beard” Barbarossa (1478-1546) was exiled from so many countries that he ended up starting his own country (Regency of Algiers) with the blessing of The Ottoman Empire which became present day Algeria, Tunisia and parts of Morocco.
4X8KX TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.
9X0G TIL that Gene Wilder personally created the Willy Wonka introduction scene where he fakes being crippled.