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TIL due to variances in Earth's orbit, in the northern hemisphere the day with the earliest sunset IS NOT December 21st. In fact in USA it occurs in early December and varies +/-2 weeks depending on your location

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ANQ17 TIL that the late president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team. He had never been to a baseball game before buying the team, and despite owning the Mariners for over 20 years, never attended a single one of their games.
b9y4Z TIL Sally Miller Gearhart, one of the first founders of women's/gender studies programs in universities, advocated for reducing men to 10% of the human population
pWAb TIL Coffee company Nescafe add a formulated coffee aroma to the top of instant coffee jars before sealing them so that you get that ‘fresh coffee’ smell when you open the jar the first time.
GAMJ TIL that when the White House discovered that the Russians had found a way to decode human speech from the movement of glass, the window panes in the Oval Office were fitted with small mechanical “vibrators”
QJPAa TIL that, in 2006, three people got hold of Coca-Cola secrets, namely important information regarding its ingredients, and tried to sell it to PepsiCo, owner of rival brand Pepsi. Instead of accepting the offer, Pepsi informed Coca-Cola and actually called the FBI.