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TIL the oldest known surviving pair of socks were designed to be worn with sandals.

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e0KN4 TIL Lord Admiral Edward Russel had a 17th century officers party, that included a garden fountain as a punch bowl. The mixture included 250 gallons of brandy, 125 gallons of Malaga wine, 1,400 pounds of sugar, 2,500 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice, and 5 pounds of nutmeg.
N7wbN TIL: That OpenDyslexic is a font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. Letters have heavy weighted bottoms to indicate direction and other unique features that prevent flipping, swapping, and rotating of letters!
olg7 TIL Steve Wozniak was so good at Tetris that Nintendo Power stopped accepting his high scores, so he submitted them with his name spelled backwards
P1LeJ TIL that O.J. Brigance won both an NFL title and a CFL title, but is the only person to have won each title while playing in for the same city, Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Stallions.
6Ekp7 TIL in 1871 most of the 400 members of the shipwrecked HMS Megaera had to spend up to 3 months on the volcanic Saint Paul Island