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TIL One Oil Spill Has Been Leaking Into The Gulf of Mexico For 14 YEARS and if it's not stopped (according government estimates) the leak could go on for 100 more years. Litigation is ongoing.

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XEN1X TIL about Room 8, a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at an elementary school California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, returning when classes started again. This pattern continued without interruption until the mid-'60s.
rR08M TIL: of Brooks Law - if a project is late, adding more people to it will make the project take even longer. The solution to getting the project done faster is to actually remove developers from the project
xV7j1 TIL: in 2015 Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones and got a close look at the Iron Throne, but refused to take a seat because there's an old rule that says the Queen is not allowed to sit on a foreign throne.
9vD6 TIL the Pennsylvania Dutch celebrate their own version of Fat Tuesday, called Fastnacht (Fast Night) - where they bake and eat doughnuts
ylAe TIL that Starbucks uses round tables in order to make lone coffee drinkers feel less lonely since there “wouldn’t be empty seats” at a round table.