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TIL NASA gets no money from companies using their name or logo to sell products.

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x7Yk TIL in the online game EVE a player group spent 12 months infiltrating a rival group, then assassinated their leader and stole or destroyed $16,500.00 USD worth of game money and supplies.
KnKR TIL That the Harvard debate team lost to a team of inmates serving time for manslaughter.
woeB7 TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.
gOkD TIL the first issue of Life magazine, entitled “Life Begins,” featured the birth of a baby named George Story. A month after LIFE announced its closure in 2000, Story died of heart failure, and Life’s final issue was entitled “A Life Ends.”
b4B0 TIL in a study of 200 people roleplaying a salary negotiation, men got higher salaries than women by $5,000. But when women were told they were negotiating as a mentor on behalf of a student, they drove bargains $11,000 higher than the men negotiating on behalf of themselves.