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TIL Valve has a flat organisation structure where everybody has an equal voice and anybody can ship a product

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LkoD0 TIL Senegal, a country 94% Muslim, elected a Christian president in 1960 who has been reelected for 20 years before he voluntarily resigned.
vPdvj TIL in the 1880s, the director of Harvard Observatory was dissatisfied with his team and remarked, "My Scottish maid could do better!" He hired Williamina Fleming, his Scottish maid. For decades, Fleming led a team that made significant discoveries, including white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.
kJ88E TIL Babies are not aware their own bodies exist until ~15 months old!
0dovM TIL that Italian football clubs could have a third reserve team in the early 20th century
R7l07 TIL that in 1924, H. P. Lovecraft was hired to ghostwrite a story for Harry Houdini about Houdini's supposedly true escape from an Egyptian cult. Lovecraft lost the only copy on the way to his own wedding, and spent much of his honeymoon rewriting it with his wife's help.