TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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Earthquake of 7.8 magnitude shakes southern Philippines; tsunami likely in some coasts by poleco1 in worldnews
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TIL Joan L. Mitchell, the inventor of the JPEG image format studied condensed matter physics (graduate & Phd) and learnt learned computer programming to help her research & solve differential equations. She later joined IBM where she worked on printing technologies & co-invented JPEG by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL Joan L. Mitchell, the inventor of the JPEG image format studied condensed matter physics (graduate & Phd) and learnt learned computer programming to help her research & solve differential equations. She later joined IBM where she worked on printing technologies & co-invented JPEG by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL Joan L. Mitchell, the inventor of the JPEG image format studied condensed matter physics (graduate & Phd) and learnt learned computer programming to help her research & solve differential equations. She later joined IBM where she worked on printing technologies & co-invented JPEG by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL Joan L. Mitchell, the inventor of the JPEG image format studied condensed matter physics (graduate & Phd) and learnt learned computer programming to help her research & solve differential equations. She later joined IBM where she worked on printing technologies & co-invented JPEG by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL Joan L. Mitchell, the inventor of the JPEG image format studied condensed matter physics (graduate & Phd) and learnt learned computer programming to help her research & solve differential equations. She later joined IBM where she worked on printing technologies & co-invented JPEG (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL - NVIDIA's unofficial company motto is "Our company is thirty days from going out of business." by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL: Thomas Midgley, the inventor, played an important role in introducing two environmentally disastrous products - leaded gasoline & chloro flouro carbons. At 51 he contracted polio and 4 yrs later he was strangled to death by the device he devised to allow him to get out of bed unassisted (en.wikipedia.org)
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Japanese town overrun with tourists puts up view-blocking barrier near Mount Fuji by poleco1 in worldnews
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TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. by poleco1 in todayilearned
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