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TIL Japanese do not throw away broken pottery, but instead fix it by repairing it with gold so that the cracks become part of its beauty, as part of a philosophy that treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to hide

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QN44k TIL that, despite their reputation as outlaws, pirates often operated on democratic principles. Everyone had to vote to make any major decisions, and even captains can be voted out. Pirates even had a system of workers compensation, with the crew maintaining a central fund to help injured pirates.
pYPKp TIL, at age 39, that staplers have different settings to fold the staples either inwards or outwards
vPbrx TIL in July 2023, an unopened, first edition model of the 2007 iPhone was sold at auction in the US for $190,372.80, nearly 400 times the original price.
GYn1E TIL computers were usually beige in the past because Germany initiated workplace standards that required 'light-value' colors on office computing equipment, causing other European countries to follow suit. This made it financially attractive to solely produce beige computers.
WkdRB TIL the Yongle Encyclopedia was six times larger than the Encyclopædia Britannica despite being written 300+ years earlier. It was regarded as the world's largest encyclopedia from 1408 to 2007