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TIL That the creator of Magic:the gathering, Richard Garfield, proposed to his wife with a custom made Magic card.

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VBjkm TIL that hummingbirds are the only birds capable of flying backwards! Their wing structure allows them to hover in place and move any direction, making them incredibly agile fliers. They also undertake remarkable migrations, flying ~500 miles nonstop across the Gulf of Mexico in a season.
WkrkL TIL that the raeson why water doesnt enter our buttholes when we fart or spread our asscheeks arbitrarily is because, is because the human body is engineered after the principle of the submarine, who is also doesnt the water doesnt enter his butthole when he enlarges rectum to shoot tortilas
LQX70 TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.
4X9GN TIL that when Mel Brooks was 16 years old, he worked for a theatrical producer who raised funds by sleeping with his investors, most of whom were elderly women. He also knew two showmen who created flop after flop, but still profited. They inspired him to make the 1967 film, “The Producers”.
eQOJ TIL while it’s only impossible to go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, it’s definitely possible for some things to go faster than light in air or water, and when they do, the air or water starts to glow blue