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TIL in Sweden fathers are eligible for 13 months of PAID leave for every child they have.

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d0XQ TIL Shaquille O’Neal poses as a minor to catch sexual predators over the internet.
vPZjj TIL In 2014, China's first astronaut Yang Liwei joined Buzz Aldrin at the International Planetary Congress to explore possibilities for expanding human spaceflight cooperation. The movie "Gravity" was part of a discussion on rescuing astronauts in peril between space stations
9j0Q TIL, the longest cable in the world is the SEA-ME-WE-3, which runs from Western Europe, through the Middle East and finally to South East Asia and it provides communication to 33 countries. It’s 39,000 km long.
X0A68 TIL In 1929, the author of Peter Pan gave the copyrights to the books to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1988, the hospital was given unique right to the royalties from Peter Pan in the UK for perpetuity.
W7dJ9 TIL the first neural network AI computer was built in the 40s by scientists born in the 19th century