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v1orK TIL a science teacher from rural Kenya who donates most of his salary to help poorer students was crowned the world’s best teacher in 2019 and awarded a $1,000,000 prize, beating 10,000 nominations from 179 countries
NZ5b TIL The Mormon Church Maintains A Centralized Committee That Actively Monitors The Writings, Activities, and Speech of its Members
vPVXD TIL that in 2017 all GPS coordinates in Australia were shifted 1.8 m to account for continental drift since the last update in 1994. Moving north 7 cm a year, the Australian plate is one of the fastest-drifting plates in the world
7raox TIL Bob Propst inventor of the office cubicle regretted it and calls it monolithic insanity.
0wAdL TIL A hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel the world was found with its head and arms ripped off, just two weeks into its first American tour.