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TIL the UK has their own version of the Ivy League called the Golden Triangle which has some of the best colleges in the world

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6ExRl TIL 98% of all Japanese adoptions are employers adopting the adult men on their staff, not children. By doing this, they are able to choose the person they wish to run their company when they no longer.
W7pP4 TIL: Farmers feed “cow magnets” to their cattle to protect them from “hardware disease” caused by swallowing nails and other metal objects
5YMJB TIL the worlds biggest airplane by wingspan is the Stratolaunch. The twin-fusalage aircraft with a wingspan of 385ft will serve as an airborne rocket launching pad capable of holding a 550,000 pound payload such as the Pegasus XL rocket and launch it into low earth orbit during flight.
xWj0 TIL that when President Roosevelt visited The Pentagon in 1945 before its dedication he ordered them to remove the whites only signes and therefore making The Pentagon the only building in Virginia were segregation laws were not enforced until 1965.
grlrb TIL that Colonel Sanders used to be a lawyer until he got into a physical fight with his own client during a trial