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TIL the Great Frost of 1709 is the coldest year of the last 500 with daily temperatures 7°C below 20th century averages.

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jN0bR TIL Robert Propst, inventor of modern day Cubicles in 1968, called them “monolithic insanity” before he died in 2000.
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Ypakv TIL Palau announced it would create the world's first shark sanctuary banning commercial shark fishing. The sanctuary protects about 230,000 square miles of ocean. Palau received the Future Policy Award from World Future Council, because "Palau is a global leader in protecting marine ecosystems.”
gMmmA TIL that President Grant in 1875 called for taxing Church property equally and wrote that its tax exempt status was "an evil that, if permitted to continue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land".