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TIL the Sun is the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature.

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xVJA1 TIL Instead of “pass/fail” Japanese students used to receive college entrance exam results via telegram with a message, “cherry blossoms are blooming” (pass), or “cherry blossoms are falling” (fail).
M71ZB TIL that in 1957, Congress voted to de-authorize Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota because the site became devoid of fossils due to pillaging and they were no longer able to justify it's existence as a unit of the NPS.
0wyg5 TIL Diseconomies of scale are when businesses become less efficient as they get bigger. Reasons include the increased cost of communication between workers, office politics, and social loafing.
dobr TIL India’s Dabbawala’s food delivers are so accurate, Fedex and Harvard study their methods
KYMB9 TIL Tupac's final album All Eyez on Me was released after Suge Knight paid Tupac's $1.4 million bail to get him released from jail. In return, Tupac agreed to release three albums on Death Row Records. The double album All Eyes on Me served as the first two albums in the three-album contract.