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rR7ww TIL that there's a legal difference between a non-profit organization and not-for-profit organization in the US. For example, The income that nonprofit and not-for-profit organizations generate is used differently.
nOQG TIL that in 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees that were awarded that year in the United States.
n1eG TIL: Pantone 448 C, the “world’s ugliest color” according to research, is used by many European countries on their tobacco products to dissuade people from smoking.
0wkBL TIL about Picher, Oklahoma. A town that had to be abandoned after it was discovered that an old lead mine was poisoning the residents. The real nail in the coffin came when an F-4 tornado hit in 2008. Today, the town sits completely empty.
E1Gyd TIL in 1952 a chemist was helping out a milk truck driver complaining about the smell of rotten milk in his truck by extracting oils from evergreen trees. 2 years later he patent his “odor-destroying, air-perfuming substances,” invention shaped like a little tree with a string attached to it.