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TIL: That small plastic spheres are floated on top of reservoirs to help stop evaporation during droughts.

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GYNN7 TIL - Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a nursery built for her newborn in her office. This was at the same time she stopped allowing parents and others from working from home.
NG78 TIL as a PhD student, American mathematician George Bernard Dantzig showed up late to a statistics class and mistook two famous unsolved statistics problems as homework. He solved them and turned them in a week later, believing his assignment was overdue.
kBVB TIL Julius Caesar had his facial hairs pulled out one by one by tweezers, rather than trust anyone to use a razor on his throat.
exyD TIL that The Infected in ‘The Last Of Us’ are infected by a fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis which can be found in some species of ants today. The fungus alters the ants behaviour, kills it, consumes its tissues and grows outside it, releasing its spores.
WRx9 TIL that despite only making up .02% of the worlds population, Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes.