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TIL that the UN logo is centred around the North Pole to avoid any one country/continent being more prominent

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gMEXW TIL that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries telephone companies used existing barbed wire fences to transmit electrical phone signals to rural areas to save money due to the price of phone lines.
NX8JJ TIL that the cheat code for the Naboo Starfighter for Star wars Rouge Squadron was so well hidden, that even Factor 5,LucasArts and even hackers were not aware of it. The cheatcode was finally found 6 months after release
JY0MB TIL: Kellogg pioneered the 6hrs a day, (30hr) work week and by the very measure on both the employee and employer side, it produced positive results. They kept this going all the way to 1980
nWdLr TIL the guy who did the voice of McGruff the Crime Dog was sentenced to 16 years in prison for weed and ammo
PJKg TIL famous mathematician Paul Erdos was once challenged to quit taking amphetamines for one month by a concerned friend. He succeeded, but complained “You’ve showed me I’m not an addict, but I didn’t get any work done…you’ve set mathematics back a month”.