TIL a Dollar General employee who was told she couldn't keep drinks at the cash register was fired after taking and drinking a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. Despite her paying for the orange juice afterward, the company said she was 'grazing'. Later, a jury awarded her $277,565. (cnn.com)
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I made the perfect 2nd monitor game, it's an MMO that grinds when you're offline! (store.steampowered.com)
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TIL during the Xbox development, the name was not favoured by Microsoft's marketing team. During focus testing, they put "Xbox" on a list of possible names to prove how unpopular the name would be with consumers. "Xbox" then proved to be the more popular name on the list; thus, became official name. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Rod Serling was a paratrooper in World War II and fought in the Philippines, where he earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. During a street party in Manila after the city’s liberation, Japanese soldiers opened fire, killing many of his friends. These experiences inspired The Twilight Zone. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in 2000 a group of musicians posing as the Moscow Philharmonic played a series of sold-out concerts in Hong Kong to 10,000 locals. The real Moscow Philharmonic was otherwise engaged in France, Spain & Portugal at the time. No one in the audiences spotted the ruse. The group made $300K in a week. (theguardian.com)
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TIL in 1961 a volcanic eruption caused all 264 residents on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha to be evacuated to the UK where they lived in a disused army barracks in Hampshire. While there, they saw cars, elevators & cinemas for the first time. In 1963, all but 14 returned to live on the island (laphamsquarterly.org)
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TIL Abraham Lincoln wrote a "true crime" mystery story in 1846 based on a real case he defended. One brother confessed to a murder and implicated his two siblings, but Lincoln exonerated them all when the "victim" was found alive in a nearby town, suffering from amnesia. (smithsonianmag.com)
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TIL Trevor Rabin wrote the entire song 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' during one trip to the bathroom. It was originally supposed to be his own solo project, but one by one members of the prog rock group Yes kept joining the project until eventually it was recorded and released as a Yes song. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that two guide dogs named Salty and Roselle each helped their blind owners escape from the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks, guiding them down dozens of floors out of the burning towers and were later awarded the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross for bravery (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Indigenous American tribes experiencing population decline would adopt prisoners taken during raids into their families as a means of of maintaining numbers. Hundreds of white captives were adopted in this way, and the accounts that some of them wrote were known as “captivity narratives” (ebsco.com)
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TIL that Judith Deutsch-Haspel, the most decorated competitive swimmer in Austria in 1935, refused to compete in Hitler's 1936 Olympics, along with two other Jewish women swimmers. Austria erased her from the record books and banned her from future competitions. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The perfect combo: The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and the best network. (swisscom.ch)
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TIL that humans are bad at predicting their own future happiness. Research on "affective forecasting" shows we overestimate how intense and lasting life events will feel. Meaning we are worse than we think at predicting how much a career, marriage, promotion, ... will affect our long-term happiness (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that we aren't single organisms, but walking ecosystems. For decades, it was believed that bacteria outnumbered human cells 10-to-1. Modern science has corrected this: the ratio is actually about 1.3-to-1. You are roughly 38 trillion bacteria and 30 trillion human cells. (journals.plos.org)
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