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TIL: Nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the NYTimes

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e8LJ TIL that possibly the world’s oldest surviving written text (around 4500-years old), known as the ‘Instructions of Shuruppak’, gives the following advice - “Do not pass judgment when you drink beer.”
BrdbK TIL when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers' first airplane
Z8XdQ TIL that Chick-fil-A once broke their tradition and opened on a Sunday when an Atlanta mayor called the company and asked that an airport location remain open after thousands of passengers were left stranded due to a power outage.
4k1jw TIL that voice activated locks that promised to only open if the correct person spoke the correct password into a microphone have been around since 1908
Ly9v TIL that the inventor of the AK-47 regretted inventing it, saying that he would have rather made a lawnmower.