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TIL France has a law allowing colleagues to gift days off for parents of seriously ill children

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XDEj TIL that the Apollo 17 ‘Blue Marble’ photograph originally had the south pole at the top, and was inverted to conform to the traditional view of 'north’ being 'up’.
epepL TIL that the Sun is 99.86% of all mass in our solar system. Every other planet, asteroid, and comet only adds up to 7/50th of a single percent.
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