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TIL The guy who designed the original Twitter’s logo only made about $3 off iStockPhoto

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p8k7e TIL at least 9 med schools in Japan manipulated exam results by females so fewer women could enter.
P17xL TIL there's a jetty in Australia that's so long that one end is 2m higher than the other due to the curvature of the Earth
vPy9L TIL of the Church of One Tree, a church in Santa Rosa, California built with lumber from a single redwood tree The tree used to construct the Church stood 275 feet high and was 18 feet in diameter. It produced 78,000 board feet of lumber.
pRy8 TIL there exists a large online community of ‘scambaiters’: individuals who are devoted to tricking Nigerian 419 scammers into performing hilarious and often humiliating challenges.
R5kX7 TIL that Harvard University spent $26,000 on a 5' x 5' gatehouse which had to be redesigned over 300 times to meet the requirements of the Cambridge Historical Commission