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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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Ooylg TIL a woman in France accidentally received a phone bill of €11,721,000,000,000,000 (million billion). This was 5000x the GDP of France at the time. It took several days of wrangling before the phone company finally admitted it was a mistake and she owed just €117.21. They let her off.
9w7OD TIL Nellie Bly, the journalist who went undercover as a patient to investigate a mental health asylum, was also the same person to first travel the world in under 80 days
edDg TIL that Ferdinand Cheval, a postman, every day, for 35 years, picked up stones during his daily mail round. He used the stones to build ‘the perfect palace’, one of the most beautiful amateur architectural works known today.
p8N5Q TIL that it is believed in Saint Patrick's lifetime he converted over 100,000 people to Christianity and founded more than 300 churches.
4X865 TIL Finland has a unit of measurement, “poronkusema,” that means “the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate.”