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TIL The 2002 Longshoremen Strike that delayed Christmas products that year is the reason why Christmas decorations started to appear in stores earlier each year.

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loMwr TIL That more than half the PhD's in the United States are fake, totaling up to 50,000 fake PhD's every year, along with 3,300 unrecognized and fake universities in the world.
1aorD TIL that the battle of Dien Bien Phu fought by the French against the Vietnamese was ‘the only pitched battle to be lost by a European army in the history of decolonisation’ and it cost the French their Empire.
Zp78D TIL about the Indian Vulture Crisis, in which Indian farmers’ use of a livestock medication led to the near eradication of vulture species and subsequent epidemiological catastrophe, costing the nation US$23bn per year
5VgZp TIL about "Man Proposes, God Disposes", an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Edwin Landseer inspired by the search for Franklin's lost expedition. The painting, which depicts polar bears among the wreckage of the expedition, is considered haunted and a bad omen.
v1PPD TIL that the first weather satellite was launched (1960) before the first human spaceflight (1961)