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TIL in 2013 the president of Finland Sauli Niinistö voluntarily took a 20 percent pay cut due to the country's difficult financial situation

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mxroR TIL Muslims are responsible for opening the doors to one of the holiest churches in Christianity, in order to preserve the peace between different denominations.
L9VV TIL When China was selecting female astronauts for its space mission the women were required to be married, to have given birth naturally and to neither have decayed teeth nor scars.
N7y9b TIL that three suburban towns on eastern Long Island are seeing skyrocketing cancer rates. Meanwhile, breast cancer alone on all of Long Island is 13 to 18 times higher than the state average, and has been for decades.
0wgKL TIL the Smithsonian raised $700k on Kickstarter in an effort to conserve the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore to walk on the moon, because NASA built it to with a life expectancy of 6 months
KOKER TIL Steve Jobs didn't let his kids use iPads. "“They haven’t used [the iPad]...We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”