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TIL that when you are on social security in Germany, the government has to pay for your internet connection, because it is seen as a basic human right

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69gXQ TIL Several BP and Transocean executives were on board Deepwater Horizon during the catastrophic explosion. A few of their intentions included maintenance planning, presenting a safety campaign, and congratulating the senior staff of the rig for 7 years of operations without a lost time incident.
D1Xap TIL Microsoft Solitaire was added to Windows to familiarize new users with the mouse.
rxre TIL in order to reduce the number of squirrelpox-carrying gray squirrels, Prince Charles has backed a plan to feed the squirrels oral contraceptives hidden in Nutella.
6DjX TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, falsely claimed to have been a nuclear physicist. In reality, he flunked both high school and college, leaving after his sophomore year at George Washington University during which he failed a course of “Molecular and Atomic Physics.”
QJxlL TIL about John Gurdon, who was ranked last out of 250 boys in his year group in Biology and in a progress report, his teacher said that pursuing Biology for him would be a "waste of time, for him and those who have to teach him". In 2012, John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine