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TIL, of the BP (Before Present) timescale, used by archeologists; 0BP is 1950 in the Gregorian calendar

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N7d76 TIL: A janitor at Kodak in the 1980s rose to be the company’s Chief Technology Officer
4XJ5a TIL that when the first white man came back to describe Yellow Stone and consequentially its geothermal features, his report was considered fictional. The same also happened for the second non-native.
ADLNa TIL that Anne Dudek's character on Friends and HIMYM shared the same fate: broken up by the guy she dated on her birthday
VPXD TIL that in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s slippers are silver, but they were changed to ruby slippers for the movie to take advantage of the new Technicolor film.
aAnJ TIL that China is not the only state to have limited the number of children allowed per family. A two-child policy existed in Vietnam, is being considered in the Philippines and has been advocated in the UK.