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TIL Beijing's Tiananmen square is 880-metre-long and 500-metre-wide with a capacity to hold one million people. It is open from 4am to 11pm everyday

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D1o7e TIL about Deep Springs College, a two year, ~26 student college located on a rural California ranch. Tuition is free but students are expected to work on the farm year-round, isolated from all technology and society.
pJMp TIL Buzz Aldrin received his doctorate from MIT for developing a technique for orbital rendezvous by eye, which he used in Gemini 12 when the radar broke
PYpme TIL Chernobyl wasn't the first Russian Nuclear disaster. They also had the Kyshtym disaster in 1957
b94v4 TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA
mxBLo TIL Robin Williams funded a scholarship at his alma mater, Juilliard, that saw a full-ride given to a student every two years. One of the people who won the award was future Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, who became the first person from her family to go to college