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TIL Jupiter was the first planet to form in our solar system
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TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.
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TIL that Pluto couldn’t even complete a solar orbit between being discovered and being declassified as a planet.
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TIL that, from a biological point of view, vegetables don’t exist. All food items we call vegetables can actually be labelled as a real plant part (carrots are roots, lettuce is a leaf, etc)
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TIL that MSG has received a wrongful bad rap, and likely isn’t dangerous as a food additive.
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TIL that in 2005, Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, and Pixar started a coordinated effort to push down their workers’ wages