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TIL that the United Nations has an Office for Outer Space Affairs.

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WVrN TIL- That Ben and Jerry’s used to have a policy that no employee could make more than five times what the lowest paid worker was paid.
OpNa TIL 350 million years ago, when the newly evolved trees were just 1 foot in height, the landscape was dominated by giant 20 foot tall mushrooms
58Vp TIL a household income of $400,000 puts you in the top 1% of earners in the United States
PYv6V TIL that -according to a report on the situation in Northern Ireland from 1969- laws and conditions in Northern Ireland had been cited by the South African government to justify its apartheid system.
GJ0N TIL the concept of platonic (non-sexual) love stems from Plato’s disdain for pedophilia, which was a fairly common element of apprenticing at the time in 4th century BC Greece.