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TIL Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit in the 1980s

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R7D8j TIL that a calendar system for Mars has already bean devised for potential future settlement. The calendar contains 24 months of 27 or 28 days each, named after Latin and Sanskrit constellation names.
BNlL TIL Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft all employ the same tax avoidance strategy.
Zpp5Y TIL the reason for the signs that say "$10 if we fail to give you a receipt" at stores. They aren't for receipt-obsessed customers, they are there to keep the employees from stealing. If employees don't ring up your purchase and generate receipt, the employee could just put cash in their pocket.
eGx4 TIL: Centipedes don’t have sex. Instead they leave packets of their sperm, called spermatophore, around for females to find.
KJXB TIL that once an Icelandic horse leaves Iceland, it can never return.