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TIL Our solar system has 290 moons. This number increases to 752 if you include asteroids and trans-neptunian objects

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nW4Q9 TIL: Henry Ford introduced the $5 work day in 1914, doubling his avg employees wages overnight and investing $10m of profits back into his employees coining the term "profit sharing" which helped launch the American middle class and was seen as "an honest wage for an honest days work."
pYAP8 TIL the first Scram button on a nuclear reactor had its origins in 1942 where an actual control rod tied to a rope with a man with an axe stood next to it; cutting the rope would mean the rods would fall by gravity into the reactor core, shutting the reactor down.
YpZR7 TIL that the @ symbol was chosen for the first electronic mail because the developer "was mostly looking for a symbol that wasn’t used much."
R5Rej TIL that the dogs in competitive agility don’t rehearse the course ahead of time. The courses are randomized at each competition, and the trainers (without their dogs) only see the layout beforehand on the same day. When the dog runs the course they are literally seeing it for the first time.
GAva5 TIL the history behind the Game of Thrones logo that GRRM and his company incorporate the detailing on the logo elements and make them a perfect representation of each honorable house and the show.