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TIL The post office is the only government service that requires to reserve 75 years of pensions for their employees

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gyBW TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
neVA9 TIL that Mister Rogers was bullied as a child. "I used to cry to myself when I was alone," he said. "And I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano." As he grew up, he decided to always look past the surface of people to the "essential invisible" within them.
mrly TIL In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Hospital created the first immortal human cell line with a tissue sample taken from a young black woman - Henrietta Lacks. Those cells, called HeLa cells, quickly became invaluable to medical research & saved millions of lives.
nNBP TIL that Michael Jackson had a meeting in one of the twin towers on the morning of 9/11 but missed it because he overselpt
yVXaa TIL that the green code from the movie The Matrix (1999) was inspired by a Japanese sushi cookbook.