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TIL that there is a Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship, where students compete in Word, Excel and PowerPoint - First place gets $7.000

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4X1QN TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.
KOEWR TIL Tyrian purple used to be worth it's weight in gold, and it took 250,000 snails to make one ounce of dye.
OoJge TIL that Lee Valley, a Canadian woodworking tool company, pays their employees on a “slope”. This means the top paid CEO cannot make more than 10 times the lowest paid employee. It also means the same CEO gets the same cut of their profit sharing as the lowest paid employee
OlnY TIL that when the Pope addressed the European Parliament in 1988, the future Northern Irish first minister Rev. Ian Paisley interrupted by shouting “I denounce you as the Antichrist”. German MEP Otto von Habsburg, son of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, responded by punching him in the face.
X0MR TIL David Bowie lived off nothing but Cocaine, Red Peppers and milk throughout the year of 1976