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

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Y7jXx TIL that Black History month’s origin is from Black History Week starting in 1926. The 2nd week of February was picked bc of the Feb birthdays of President Lincoln and F. Douglass, who were regarded back then as pioneers for civil rights. Black History month was then formally adopted in 1976.
MePj0 TIL of the "50 Cent Army" in China. Online commentators who are paid ¥0.50 for every post to manipulate public opinion on social media.
oBAV8 TIL of Battle of Cape Ecnomus, in which 1/5th of the Roman male population participated in. A total of 300 thousand men participated in a pitched battle that lasted mere hours.
n679 TIL that the average university student in 1979 only had to work 182 hours per year (a part-time summer job) to pay for tuition, whereas the average 2013 student had to work 991 hours (a full-time job for half the year)
m10DY TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona