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TIL I learned that 4th-century Chinese poet Su Hui wrote The Star Gauge, the most elaborate palindromic poem in history, dedicating it to her husband. Consisting of a 29x29 grid of 841 characters, it can be read in many directions and patterns to form more than 3,000 shorter rhyming poems.

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b9oL9 TIL of Fannie Quigley—a five-foot-tall frontierswoman who spent nearly 40 years prospecting in a remote Alaskan region in the 1890s. She was defined as an all-in-one miner, hunter, brewer, and cook who used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.
nW99Y TIL there is an area of Yellowstone National Park called the “Zone of Death”, where a legal loophole could theoretically allow someone to get away with murder if committed there.
PVkO TIL that NPR posted a link “Why doesn’t America read anymore?” to their Facebook page; the link led to an April Fool’s message saying that many people comment on a story without ever reading the article & asking not to comment if you read the link; people commented immediately on how they do read.
E1dQX TIL that Abraham Lincoln refused to carry a knife, because he suffered from depression, and feared he would harm himself
l7gDa TIL that in 1421, a village in the Netherlands vanished overnight in the St. Elizabeth’s flood — and legend says its church tower was guarded by a phantom black cat