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TIL Samuel L Jackson was an usher for MLK jr.s funeral

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koom TIL That Pythagoras is reported to have sentenced one of his students to death by drowning after the student proved that the square root of two was irrational. (Pythagoras believed all numbers were rational).
oylA TIL China is creating a car-free city from scratch: “Great City will be built around a high-rise core housing 80,000 people, entirely walkable, and surrounded by green space.” It designed to use less water, create less waste and generate less carbon dioxide than a normal city.
N0bN TIL a watchmaker 240 years ago invented robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
XXAX TIL While a palindrome reads the same way backwards or forwards (otto, kayak), a semordnilap (itself a semordnilap of “palindromes”) makes a completely different word when spelled backwards.
m1x4x TIL that actor Chuck Lamb became famous for playing the role of dead bodies in film and television