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TIL: Not all snow flakes are symmetrical: “Despite what Wilson Bentley’s old photographs would have us believe, most snowflakes are not symmetrical. Wilson Bentley only photographed the pretty ones. In fact, 99% of snow flakes are downright ugly

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d8eb9 TIL about the International Fixed Calendar. It is comprised of 13 months of 28 days each (364) + 1 extra day that doesn't belong to any week. it is a perennial calendar and every date falls on the same day every year. It was never adopted by any country but the Kodak company used it from 1928-1989.
K15a TIL that in the early 1800s the British spent many hundred of thousands of pounds bribing countries to stop the slave trade
DmYg TIL Bill Nye and his neighbour, Arrested Development star Ed Begley Jr., are in an ongoing competition to see who can have the “lowest carbon footprint”
ZM1B TIL Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are all college dropouts. (click arrow at top-right to pan through)
oZr7 TIL that a man programmed a computer in 1993 to write a romance novel, which was received with positive reviews by some critics