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TIL Mary Baker Eddy started The Christian Science Monitor not for her religious reasons, but so that the world would have a source of news free from "Yellow Journalism"

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6knw TIL the five oldest known companies all started in Japan. The oldest being more than 1400 years old. Worldwide there are more than 5500 companies that have been operating for 200+ years
wLxE7 TIL that 22c/71.6f is a cold spell in malaysia
VMEGD TIL A Japanese skating rink once put 5,000 dead fishes in their ice to give their customers the enjoyment of skating over a frozen ocean. The attraction was closed immediately after a public uproar.
Be8k TIL That a woman in Ohio was sentenced by a judge to sit in the “smelliest area” of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for neglecting her pet. “If you puke, you puke.”
1KnP TIL the official definition of a second is 9,192,631,770 cycles of the Cesium atoms resonant frequency, and the NIST-F1 cesium atomic clock can produce a frequency so precise that its time error per day is about 0.03 nanoseconds, meaning the clock would lose one second in 100 million years