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TIL that America is one of only four nations without paid Maternity Leave

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OooVL TIL Uranus has a magnetic field that "flickers" because the magnetic field is so off-kilter with its rotational axis that magnetic lines will snap apart and reconnect as it rotates. According to one astronomer, "Uranus is a geometric mess."
JYBe8 TIL of the bristlecone pine forests in California whose trees are the oldest living organisms on the planet. At 4800 years old, some of the pines growing there today began growing before the pyramids were built.
kOdYm TIL the VLC media player uses a traffic cone for its icon because the students who created it drunkenly started a traffic cone collection
dayd TIL: The odds of flipping a coin is actually 51/49. The odds of spinning a US penny is actually 80/20.
jW7E TIL of John ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill, a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword. He holds the last recorded kill with a bow and arrow in action.