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TIL that the Skylab Mutiny was the first and only organized labor protest to happen in space

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mxVVO TIL in 2007, "Big Bang Theory" set designers toured the apartments being used by current graduate students to see how young scientists really live. They did a faithful re-creation of the apartments, but after CBS tested the show, the sets were scrapped because they were too depressing.
n5vB TIL South Africa has no legally defined capital city. Rather, the country’s three branches of government are split over different cities: (Cape Town, Pretoria, and Bloemfontein).
LopZ TIL The Susie G. Komen Foundation has only donated 3.6% of the money it’s raised to metastatic breast cancer research.
XEwxr TIL the Engish mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead's work was so difficult to understand even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writing.
jQrR TIL of Beat ‘Em & Eat 'Em, a game for the Atari 2600, where the goal is to control two nude women on the street who must catch semen in their mouths that comes from a masturbating man on a rooftop.