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TIL South Korea sells "mini studying rooms" for your home.

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DEAY TIL that Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan’s journey from Earth to Mars took 6 months, which is less than Christopher Columbus’ first journey from Europe to America (8 months)
OGAb6 TIL that Paul Ignatius, America's Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War is still alive at the age of 103
4DJo TIL Bowhead whales may be the world’s longest lived mammal. In 2007, a 15m (49ft) specimen was discovered with the head of a harpoon embedded in its neck. The 3.5-inch (89 mm) projectile was manufactured in New Bedford, Massachusetts around 1890, suggesting the animal survived a hunt a century ago.
e0ER4 TIL the idea for a military Command Information Center ("CIC"), was taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E. E."Doc" Smith in a surge of refitting and retraining during 1943 after the battle of the Coral Sea through the Solomon Islands
MDam TIL that the Cliffs Notes for ‘The Scarlet Letter’ outnumbers sales of the actual book 3.6 to 1.