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TIL nonviolent protests engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change

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oME TIL a student designed the RECYCLING logo & got paid out a whopping $2500.
VBBGp TIL in 2012 a woman high on crystal meth set fire to a Swamp Cyprus tree estimated to be 3,500 years old. The tree, nicknamed The Senator, formed part of a public park where people could admire the living treasure. It did not survive the fire.
p8LDb TIL despite modern connotations of death as evil, the Greek god Hades was actually more altruistically inclined. Very few individual aspects of his personality were recorded, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.
g0R8 TIL that, in 2013, a Kenyan lawyer filed a petition within the International Court of Justice, asking the ICJ to hold the State of Israel and Pontius Pilate, among others, responsible for Jesus’ “unlawful” trial and crucifixion
e0gRg TIL Businesses like investment banks, insurance, hedge fund and money market fund companies are referred to as Shadow Banking