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TIL that Venus rotates so slowly, you could watch the sunset forever just by walking.

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yQ5Bl TIL: During the Russian famine of the 1920s, Government officials advised starving residents to dig up the dried bones of animals, grind them into flour and bake a “bread substitute [that has] a nutritive value of 25 percent more than rye bread, in spite of its unpleasant smell and taste”.
OoY87 TIL Zappos uses an organizational structure called holacracy, which removes traditional corporate hierarchy in favor of overlapping, self-governing "circles" to complete specific tasks.
5YWDB TIL that chick fil a has 12 locations that serve more than chicken, including BURGERS.
MGeb TIL the Scotts company used to include clover in their lawn mix as a natural fertilizer. When their new herbicide killed the clover, they reclassified it as a weed.
WkpE8 TIL that, after becoming the first white man to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds, French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre received a formal letter of invitation from the Ku Klux Klan. He did not respond.