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TIL a Harvard Researcher found rolling a pair of dice was as predictive of your future income as your college GPA is.

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oQLR TIL since 1914, rooftops of residential buildings near Wrigley Field have had seating available to watch the Chicago Cubs play baseball. In 2002, the Cubs began legal proceedings against some of those homeowners, asserting that they were illegally using a copyrighted game, and sued for royalties.
QNGDM TIL: In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado started buying slaves in Sudan to free them, this gained global attention with schools in other countries starting slave buyback programs until it became clear that the money was just helping slavery grow
e0QnD TIL that in Japan, you give gifts with both hands and you receive gifts with both hands
1gdd TIL that Jimmy Carter is behind the impending demise of the Guinea Worm, one of mankind’s oldest and most painful (and gross) parasites.
PrBO TIL that Darwin predicted the existence of a moth in Madagascar 45 years before it was seen, and 150 years before it was scientifically publishable.