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TIL The set of “Saved By The Bell” was never completely taken down, and has been used for other shows like “That’s So Raven” and “iCarly.”

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Oov47 TIL: That the Netherlands Flood Defense System includes 2 of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World. Dutch government spends >1BN euro/yr ensuring that its extensive system of dikes/dams/levies are held to a standard of 1 flood every 10,000 years, this includes depositing 3.1bn gallons of sand on shores.
dDmOZ TIL how human started to celebrate New Year. The earliest recorded festivities date back 4,000 years to ancient Babylon. Later Caesar instituted January 1st as the first day of the year to honor Janus, the Roman god of beginnings.
v5nK TIL that in 1897, an internal Western Union memo said that “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication”.
ddwZ TIL the astronomer most responsible for having Pluto reclassified wrote a memoir about it called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”.
xwr0 TIL billionaire Sean Parker was considered a genius at a young age. In high school he was recruited by the CIA after winning a computer science fair and was making $80,000/year by the time he was a senior