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TIL Raymond Loewy, famed for his design of the Coca-Cola bottle among other work, helped design Skylab. He did so with a few principles in mind: eight hours of daily solitude, meals facing each other, and smooth partitions

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WjKB TIL that “spaghetti” is actually the plural form of the word. An individual strand is referred to as a “spaghetto”
voQj TIL that the US religion industry is worth $1.2 Trillion a year, more than America’s 10 biggest tech companies, combined!
newkY TIL Marie Holmes won $188 million & vowed to give her church a big donation. After commuting to donate $1.5 million, the pastor sued her for $10 million for a verbal agreement to donate more. The pastor said Holmes gave him emotional stress, causing him to take medicine for anxiety and depression.
0dr4y TIL of the humorous and ineffective sorting algorithm Miracle Sort, where it keeps checking an array until it becomes sorted. It requires external force (a miracle) to change the array in some way so it becomes sorted, or that the array is already sorted to begin with.
xVrZ7 TIL of the Maniots, who claim descent from the ancient Spartans. They live on a small mountainous peninsula and despite being almost always outnumbered, they never succumbed to the Ottoman invasions. They would later go on to play a pivotal role in liberating Greece from the Ottoman rule.