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TIL The Order of the Phoenix is a real order. The honour is bestowed by the Greek government to Greek citizens who have excelled in the arts and literature, science, public administration, shipping, commerce, and industry.

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69LBY TIL that mentally disabled patients at the Judge Rotenberg Center aren't allowed to talk to each-other and will get punised if they do so, employees also can't chat with other employees, it's even encouraged for employees to rat each-other out if they try to have conversation
v55D TIL: Sun Microsystems bought StarDivision, the company that owned StarOffice (the precursor to OpenOffice), for $59.5 million because it was cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for their staff of 42,000.
QnRL TIL that in the 1960s, MGM’s Tom & Jerry had their faceless black housekeeper Mammy Twoshoes replaced by a Irish-accented white woman
OQn4 TIL that a year before his death, Karl Marx no longer associated himself with the current state of communism and declared that “I myself am not a Marxist”.
xV6O1 TIL according to North Korea unicorns exist and there is a grave near a temple in Pyongyang