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TIL the concept of Dibs is almost culturally universal.
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TIL that after moving from New York to Georgia, a boy wore a "Hempstead NY 516" shirt to his new school. Believing that the shirt was a marijuana reference, the school pulled him out of class until he persuaded officials to check online for proof of his former hometown's existence.
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TIL in 1920 The New York Times ridiculed the notion of rockets in space, calling it absurd, and criticized rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard as being less educated than a high school student. They issued a retraction in 1969 just days before Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.
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TIL that after several food safety scandals that led to several deaths, The director of the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration was convicted of corruption and executed
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TIL that "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" only works in that order. First, reduce consumption. Then, reuse what you do consume. THEN, recycle what you can't reuse.
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TIL Amazon’s daily record for orders was more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. That day Amazon sold enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle.