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TIL that a University of Minnesota study has found that while a neat and tidy working area encouraged normatively good activities like eating healthy and donating to charity, a messy work environment encouraged trying new things and increased creativity.

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6XEZ TIL Adolf Hitler wrote admiringly of the Chinese and Japanese. “They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud [of ours].”
4XxOa TIL the rugged tropical Pacific island of Nuku Hiva is covered with pine forests, planted by sailors centuries ago. It makes parts of the island look like the European Alps.
OVd4 TIL that when Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee, The Times announced the news with the headline “Foot Heads Arms Body”
WkAd9 TIL of Justo Gallego, a Spanish man who's spend nearly the last 60 years building a cathedral by himself from materials he found in the area.
nOB9 TIL one member of Congress told a NOAA administrator ‘Dr, I don’t need your weather satellites, I have the Weather Channel,’“