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TIL that employees and customers of the popular grocery chain Market Basket successfully boycotted the company after its beloved CEO was fired. During the monumental protests, Market Basket lost an estimated 10$ Million per day.

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J176j TIL former GWAR Bassist Beefcake the Mighty (Michael Bishop) received a Ph.D. in Music from UVA in 2012. After GWAR’s original vocalist died, Dr. Bishop would go on to rejoin the band as their new singer Blöthar the Berserker.
oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.
4XnPX TIL “Tzar” is just Caesar in Russian.
ENbo TIL that sun sneezing is called Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome and not everybody has it
d8aa9 TIL that Lebanon made a massive bowl of hummus to get into the Guiness Book of World Records just so people around the world can recognise that hummus is from Lebanon