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TIL, rogue waves are a relatively new scientifically accepted phenomena, with the first evidence of one occurring in 1995, prior to this they were largely believed to be a myth

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l755B TIL 'Irregardless' Was Added To Merriam-Webster's Dictionary In 1934
KOed4 TIL Bruce Campbell was originally going to be revealed as Mysterio in Rami's canceled SpiderMan 4 film.
nWDLd TIL about "Low Ball Coins", where a coin is considered valuable not because it's in good condition but because it's extremely worn out. A coin in the lowest grade is often much rarer than one in a high grade - In some cases, there are no known examples of a certain coin in the lowest grade.
Kwjw TIL that Kurt Vonnegut was once employed by Sports Illustrated and tasked with writing a story about a racehorse who jumped over a fence to try to run away. He wrote “The horse jumped over the fucking fence” and left the job.
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