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TIL the minimum number of people to populate a space colony with minimum inbreeding is 160.

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GAYLJ TIL about the Sad Clown Paradox, the contradictory association of comedians and comedic performers and mental disorders like anxiety and depression
9K4G TIL in 2006 an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price rose to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
XE4WX TIL that upon imprisonment American Psychologist Timothy Leary was given psychological tests designed to aid placing inmates in jobs that were best suited to them. Leary himself had designed a few of them and used that knowledge to get a low-security gardening assignment, and escaped.
R7Qj TIL more people have orbited around the moon (24) than have pitched a perfect game (23)
x6eZk TIL as recently as 2011, Dr Pepper ran an ad campaign with the slogan “Dr Pepper: IT’S NOT FOR WOMEN”. There was even a Facebook page that only men could access, where men would shoot at “girlie” things like flowers and rainbows.