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TIL The Longest Year In History Was 445 Days Long

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rRbed TIL: A lot of games and companies misuse the red cross. Although, it is protected by international law and the Geneva conventions. It is indeed illegal and punishable for unauthorized use of the red cross and red crescent.
1aPP7 TIL that a cyber attack at the London 2012 Olympic games was thwarted as the child hacker was called away for tea by his mother.
9w8aB TIL even traveling at the speed of light, it would take us 25,000 years to reach the center of our galaxy.
4RQR TIL that Monsanto once created a town in Illinois so it could build a factory in a town with low taxes and lax regulations. The town is now home to a huge superfund site
BOMr TIL that in 2012, a 14 year old North Korean girl drowned trying to save her family’s portraits of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung (former dictators) from a flash flood