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TIL that the current CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was also the first female employee at Google, in 1999.

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Ypr4A TIL in the coldest of Russia's northern towns, people will leave their cars running from Fall to Spring lest the car batteries freeze solid.
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jNZNM TIL that China's one child policy introduced in 1979 prevented the birth of 400 million people, as well as generated up to two trillion in fines.
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