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TIL: The BBC openly admits to unequally paying women more than men for the same hours worked

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ZJmv TIL that NASA is well on its way to developing a reactionless propulsion system for spacecraft.
8jGa TIL: 3 Italians broke out of a WW2 British POW camp. With meagre rations and equipment they attempted to climb Mount Kenya. After 18 days, they broke back into the camp and were awarded 18 days solitary confinement (reduced to 7 by the commandant in honor of their ‘sporting effort’)
dD0LZ TIL of the founder of the Majapahit Empire, Raden Wijaya who used a Mongol army that had originally sailed to Indonesia to invade his father's kingdom to defeat rebels that had deposed and killed his father. He would then destroy the weakened Mongol force and become independent
8ABP TIL that Apple does not have a trademark on the “i” prefix.
KOkKB TIL of Rumwold of Buckingham, who in 662 purportedly made a profession of Christian faith, requested baptism, delivered a sermon on the Holy Trinity, and died - at three days old.