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TIL There are more public libraries than McDonalds in the U.S.

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ADL6o TIL In 2007, Odyssey Moon was the first team to register for the Lunar X Prize competition, an event that hopes to rekindle the efforts of humans to return to the moon. The team's goals were to build and deploy a robotic lunar lander
X0DlE TIL 1960s Futurists Predicted a Shorter Work Week and a Senate Commitee thought by the year 2000 that we would be down to 14 hours a week for a full work week, and they used the show "The Jetsons", to showcase this
awQ6M TIL a computer program named “World One,” which was developed in 1973 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), predicts 2020 to be the year when a series of catastrophic events kick off a 20-year process of a slow demise of human civilization.
yQpgl TIL those holes in the mortar around my brick home are called weep holes and a sign of good masonry work.
DQO0D TIL I learned a man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015.Burger King paid for their wedding.