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TIL that all of Mr Roger's sweaters that he wore on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood were knitted by his mother, Nancy McFeely Rogers

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KO7pE TIL the demigod Maui was crushed to death by the obsidian teeth in the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō's vagina
b6MGa TIL about the Grafton castaways, a real-life version of Gilligan's Island. Shipwrecked in 1864 on the Auckland Islands for almost 20 months, 5 men survived by building a thatched hut with glass windows and bookshelves. They crafted a forge to work metal, tanned leather, made soap from seashells etc.
Kdl9 TIL: That men are more likely to be victims of dating violence than women. And that women are more likely than men to “stalk, attack, and abuse” their partners.
MeW77 TIL A man writing a book about an attack on the WTC was inside the Marriot hotel next door when the hotel collapsed on 9/11. He was saved by firefighters and evacuated off a metal beam from the 2nd floor after the hotel fell
JYyw1 TIL we can see the shadows of the capillaries in our eyes. Our brains just ignore them because they offer no useful information to us (kind of like how you don't see your nose unless you focus on it.) This is called the Troxler Effect. I linked a procedure you can follow to see the shadows yourself.