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TIL the World Wide Web is 7777 days old today.

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OBle TIL there is a 12,000 year old structure, 7,000 years older than mesopotamia, being excavated in Turkey.
9we7X TIL of Cynthia Scott, a 24 year old woman who was murdered in 1963 by a Detroit patrolman after he tried to arrest her without cause. Her death sparked a series of demonstrations that brought thousands to the streets in Detroit
x6nXw TIL that the English and French versions of O Canada are not translations of each other, but completely different poems set to the same music
epda5 TIL a Challenger space shuttle engineer, Allan McDonald, raised safety concerns against the wishes of his employer & NASA. He was ignored; a fatal accident resulted. When McDonald spoke out, he was demoted by his company. Congress stepped in to help him. He later taught ethical decision making.
XENGr TIL ‘Toxic positivity’ is the lack of acknowledgement all your emotions, like anger or sadness. It posits that positive psychology places too much importance on upbeat thinking, while shunting challenging and difficult experiences to the side