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TIL there's a company that will create gift wrapping paper with your face on the wrapper

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VWp0 TIL next year’s Super Bowl (2016) will use the Arabic numeral 50 instead of Roman Numeral L because L would not be aesthetically pleasing
xVn8k TIL that Steven Seagal was a Russian envoy to the US in 2018
jNjj TIL kids would rather get paid less to be “professional” than work a blue collar job
Z8bvD TIL: The Dutch government built the worlds first floating dairy farm, the Floating Farm, in anticipation of a world with shrinking land supply. The cows are on the farm's second level, a garden-like enclosure where the animals will be milked by robots, above is a greenhouse with grass for foraging.
lWlK TIL about “token sucking” - someone, generally a homeless person, earns his sustenance by clogging the token receptacle in the subway turnstile with gum or a paperclip. The tokens become backed up in the receptacle and then “sucks them out by placing his lips around the opening and inhaling.”