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TIL That the Hostages Involved in the Iran Hostage Crisis Were Given Lifetime Passes to MLB Games

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PWkg TIL The Economist received a letter from Boston protesting their usage of “niggardly,” an adjective meaning stingy or miserly, because it sounded like the racial slur. The magazine, based in Britain, responded with, “Why do we get such letters only from America?”
aj9y TIL that a human would have to run ~45mph to run on water.
GN71 TIL Norway has over $800 billion invested for future generations. They only invest ethically, and have excluded companies like Boeing for making nukes, Raytheon for making cluster bombs, and Wal-Mart for human rights violations. The investments may be worth as much as $3.3 trillion by 2030.
5j7Q TIL about green boots, a man who died during his climbing of Mt. Everest, his body is now used as a land mark to gauge how far from the summit climbers are
oBYPL TIL that the upvote button colour’s is literally called “orangered” because it is both