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

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kJddd TIL: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" has 5 verses
NXbye TIL that the Yamaha SR400/500 was in production mostly unchanged from 1978 to 2021
loEer TIL that in 2012 a Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao announced to offered $65m to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter Gigi Chao. He later doubled his offer to $130m. After this Gigi said in an open letter that "I think I'll marry a man when he marries a man."
NaL8 TIL That psychologists conducted a study in which experimenters asked total strangers “Would you go to bed with me tonight?” 75% of men said yes. Every single woman said no.
axgA TIL 46% of the top 50 publicly traded firms in the UK have a British parliamentarian either as a director or a shareholder. That is more than in any other country, including Italy.