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TIL that Henry Kissinger’s senior thesis was 383 pages. After he published it, Harvard created the “Kissinger rule,” which restricted the length of all future undergraduate papers to 150 pages.

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O0GY TIL Thanksgiving and Hanukkah will overlap this year (A.D. 2013) and won’t overlap again until A.D. 79,811.
kpaE TIL that photography in the Sistine Chapel has been banned since 1980 when the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) obtained exclusive rights to the paintings in return for a $4 million restoration project.
6ENLZ TIL: A man in India developed low cost sanitary pads for the rural women because they were so expensive. The purpose of his feat was to prevent his wife from using dirty clothes. His name is Arunachalam Muruganantham and Bollywood recently made a movie called "Padman" inspired by his story.
OoMDe TIL that because of a treaty signed in 1795, the state of New York still gives 150 bushels of salt to the Onondaga people every spring
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