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TIL That when Washington D.C. was first built and the federal government moved there, there was no building for the Supreme Court. They had no permanent meeting place until 1810, when they moved into the north wing (Senate) of the Capitol and stayed there until 1935 when they had their own building.

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Oo9a6 TIL about Chai Ling, a student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. She advocated to continue protesting until a bloodshed would change China, but when interviewed before the incident about whether she herself would attend the protests, she answered no, cause she wanted to live.
9YP7M TIL BBC World Service carried out a poll in 19 different nations. Only 4 nations believed the US was doing more good than harm in the world (US, Nigeria, Kenya, and India). All European nations had an overwhelming negative opinion of the US. The worst was Russia. Second was Spain.
OoylL TIL that the popularity of salt and pepper as near universal table condiments was due to Louis XIV who considered most other forms of seasoning a vulgar act. Today, over 27,000 tons of black pepper is consumed by US alone.
Zdda TIL that NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for the space flight of Alan Shepard by hand, and was called on by NASA officials to verify the computer’s calculations of John Glenn’s orbit around Earth.
wLKM1 TIL traffic is so bad in Bangkok that Thai Traffic Police has a unit of officers trained in basic midwifery in order to assist deliveries which do not reach the hospital in time.